Food Chain Lesson

Multiple Choice

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

Multiple Choice

What do the arrows show in a food chain picture?

• They always point to the smallest animals.
• They point to the animal that tastes the best.
• They always point to the producers.
• They point in the direction that energy is flowing.

Multiple Choice

Why are plants called producers?

• They make carbon dioxide
• They decompose
• They make their own food
• They are omnivores

Multiple Choice

What do herbivores eat?

• Only plants
• plants and animals
• only other animals
• dead organisms

Multiple Choice

What do carnivores eat?

• only plants
• plants and animals
• only other animals
• dead organisms

Multiple Choice

What do omnivores eat?

• only plants
• plants and animals
• only other animals
• dead organisms

Multiple Choice

A decomposer?

• Eats dead plants or animals and breaks down to put nutrients in the soil
• Eats plants or other animals for food
• Makes its own food
• Machine that gathers trash

Multiple Choice

An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Scavenger

Multiple Choice

An Organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants or animals.

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Food Web

• Producer

Multiple Choice

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

Multiple Choice

The diagram shows a prairie food web. Which organism in the food web would be classified as a producer?

• Deer

• Squirrel

• Plant Seeds

• Field Mouse

Multiple Select

Click on the image to make it larger-- Choose all that apply: The hawk gets energy from...

• mouse

• rabbit

• wildflowers

• snake

Multiple Choice

What organism would most likely fit in the box?

• A. Cactus

• B. Snake

• C. Worm

• D. Frog

Multiple Choice

What is eaten by both the owl and the bird?

• A. Grass

• B. Mice

• C. Grasshopper

• D. Grain

Multiple Choice

Which of the following food chains are in the correct order?

• A. Eagle > Snake > Sun > Mouse > Grass

• B. Sun > Grass > Mouse > Eagle > Snake

• C. Eagle > Snake > Mouse > Grass > Sun

• D. Sun > Grass > Mouse > Snake > Eagle

Multiple Choice

Four organisms are illustrated here.

Which organism can make its own food?

• Rabbit

• Daisy

• Mushroom

• Earthworm

Multiple Choice

A pond food chain is illustrated here. In this food chain, the large fish gets it energy by –

• being food for the hawk

• preying on small fish

• eating plants

• absorbing sunlight

Multiple Choice

A partial forest food web is shown. Which organisms in this

food web eat only consumers?

• Squirrels, turkeys, and caterpillars only

• Squirrels, turkeys, caterpillars, and skunks only

• Hawks, bobcats, and owls only

• Bobcats only

Multiple Choice

In this food web, snakes can get their energy from...

• rabbits

• mice

• foxes

• all of these

Multiple Choice

What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

Multiple Choice

Where does the energy go in a food chain?

• from consumers to producers to the sun

• from producers to the sun to consumers

• from the sun to producers to consumers

• from the sun to consumers to producers

Multiple Choice

Which choice puts this food chain in the right order?

• sun, grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk

• hawk, grass, sun, snake, frog, grasshopper

• grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk, sun

• hawk, snake, frog, grasshopper, grass, sun