Food Chains and Food Webs

What is the starting source energy for all food chains?

• grass
• sun
• bug
• mushrooms

What is this called in a food chain?

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

What is this?

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

What is a food chain?

• A necklace.
• Jewelry made of food.
• A path showing how energy moves from one living thing to another.
• A life cycle.

Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.
• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
• The willow tree population would decrease.
• Foxes would dies due to no food source.