Lesson 2: Food Chains and Food Webs

Lesson 2: Food Chains and Food Webs

Get Prepared

You will need your earbuds, your workbook, and your colored pencils. If the sub has not distributed them, ask if you can get them. Once you are ready, go to the next slide to watch the video notes.

Practice

Next up are some practice questions!

Match

Match the following

• Another name for an autotroph. It can make its own glucose.

• Another name for a heterotroph. It must eat other organisms for glucose.

• A special type of consumer. It breaks down dead or decaying organisms for glucose.

producer

consumer

decomposer

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Multiple Choice

What does the arrow point to in a food chain?

• only the plants in a food chain

• only the animals in a food chain

• the organism that gets the energy

• the organism that lives the longest

Multiple Choice

Which organism is getting energy from the mouse?

• cricket

• grass

• fox

• Sun

Multiple Choice

According to this food chain, how does the snake get energy?

• by eating the hawk

• by eating the rabbit

• by eating the berries

• by being in the Sun

Multiple Choice

According to this food chain, what is the primary consumer?

• sun

• berries

• rabbit

• snake

• hawk

Multiple Choice

According to this food chain, what is the producer?

• sun

• berries

• rabbit

• snake

• hawk

Multiple Choice

Which of these gets energy from a nonliving thing?

• the Sun

• the grass

• the mouse

• the fox

Multiple Choice

Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up....

• food web
• food chain
• niche
• symbiosis

Multiple Choice

In this food web, which two organisms could be harmed if the mouse population were to decrease?

• Deer and caterpillar
• Wolf and snake
• Oak and grass
• Hawk and songbird

Multiple Choice

Is the rabbit in the same food chain as the owl?

• No

• Yes

Multiple Choice

Which organism do the owl and the weasel compete for in the food web?

• Hawk
• Spider
• Grasshopper
• Shrew

Worksheet

If the sub has not given you a copy already, ask for the Food Chain and Food Web worksheet. Complete the worksheet and place it in the turn in bin. If you don't finish in class, please complete for homework.