Food Webs

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them. 
• They may eat more than one other organism. 
• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources. 
• They have no resources available to them.

The image provided is an example of a:

• Producer
• Heterotroph
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Which of the following is a way that humans could change/destroy an ecosystem?

• Mowing the grass
• Building a shopping center
• enjoying a picnic
• watching tv

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

A diagram that shows the transfer of energy in one line is a...

• food web
• food chain
• food line
• food court

A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment makes up a 

• food web
• ecosystem
• food chain
• population

What is a herbivore?

• an animal that gets energy from eating other animals
• an organism that gets energy from eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals
• an animal that eats only herbs

An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste is a(an) ___________.

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

An animal that is hunted and eaten for food is a __________.

• predator
• prey
• population