Food chain and food web

Food chains & Food webs

Learner's book page 98-101

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are producers?

• plants

• humans

• snakes

• birds

A producer is a living thing (usually a green plant) that can make its own food.

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Multiple Choice

A consumer?

• Makes its own food

• Eats dead plants and animals

• Eats plants and other animals for energy

A consumer is a living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things to obtain its energy.

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Multiple Choice

Cactus. Is it a.....

• Producer

• Consumer

Multiple Choice

What is transferred along a food chain?

• Water

• Air

• Energy

Multiple Choice

An animal that eats other animals is a....

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

Multiple Choice

Why is a deer classified as a herbivore?

• A deer makes its own food.

• A deer eats only plants.

• A deer eats only animals.

• A deer eats plants and animals.

Multiple Choice

An animal that eats only plants is an...

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

Multiple Choice

What is shown by the arrows in a food chain?

• eating

• transfer

• food

• energy transfer

​Arrows show the transfer of energy between living things.

Multiple Choice

Here is a food chain from the Atlantic Ocean.

Algae --> Zooplankto --> shrimp --> cod

How many trophic levels are there in this food chain?

• 4

• 3

• 2

• 1

Multiple Choice

Which is the secondary consumer?

• Kangaroo rat

• Snake

• Fox

• Cactus

Multiple Choice

Which is the first consumer?

• Sun

• rabbit

• Snake

• plant

Food web - a drawing of a number of linked food chains.

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Multiple Choice

The diagram shows a simple food web. it contains three food chains.

The letters A, B, C and D are the four different organisms (living things) making up these food chains.

Which organism is both a primary and a secondary consumer?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Multiple Choice

To which living thing or things does the mouse's energy pass?

• snake only

• hawk only

• hawk and snake only