Matter and Energy in Food Webs

Choose the organism that gets its food through eating other sources.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

Choose the organism that makes its own food.

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Scavenger

Choose the important things decomposers do.

• hunt for food and keep prey populations under control

• break down dead things and add nutrients back into the soil

• harm food webs and cause destruction to ecosystems

• cause diseases in animals and prevent new plants from growing

What is the producer in this food chain?

• The rabbit
• The grass
• The fox
• There is no such thing as a producer

What is the consumer/s in this food chain?

• The grass

• The rabbit

• The rabbit and fox

• The fox

The first organism in a food chain is always a

• consumer
• herbivore
• carnivore
• producer

What does a primary consumer eat?

• Tertiary Consumers
• Secondary Consumers
• Producers
• Primary Consumers

If a frog eats a grasshopper that eats grass, the frog is a

• producer
• secondary consumer
• primary consumer
• decomposer

If a boy eats a chicken that has eaten a bug and the bug ate plants, the boy is a 

• producer
• primary consumer
• secondary consumer
• tertiary consumer

Choose the correct food chain with three levels starting with a producer.

• prairie grass --> deer

• squirrel --> eagle --> mountain lion --> prairie grass

• plant seeds --> field mouse --> snake

• plant seeds --> deer --> mountain lion