Food Chains and Food Webs
5th Grade
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Food Chains and Food Webs
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Melissa Hargreaves
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This quiz comprehensively covers food chains and food webs, fundamental ecological concepts appropriate for 5th grade students. The questions assess students' understanding of energy flow in ecosystems, requiring them to distinguish between producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and decomposers. Students must demonstrate mastery of vocabulary related to feeding relationships, including herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores, while also analyzing visual diagrams to identify specific organisms' roles within food webs. The core concepts students need include understanding that energy originates from the sun and flows through ecosystems in predictable patterns, recognizing that producers use photosynthesis to create their own food, and comprehending how energy transfers from one trophic level to the next. Students must also grasp the difference between simple food chains and complex food webs, understanding that food webs represent multiple interconnected feeding relationships within an ecosystem. Created by Melissa Hargreaves, a Biology teacher in US who teaches grade 5. This assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a formative assessment tool to gauge student understanding before moving to more complex ecological concepts, or as review material to reinforce key vocabulary and relationships after direct instruction. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge, assign it as independent practice homework, or use it as a diagnostic tool to identify students who need additional support with ecosystem concepts. The visual elements incorporated into several questions make this particularly valuable for supporting diverse learners who benefit from graphic representations of abstract concepts. This quiz aligns with NGSS 5-LS2-1, which focuses on how animals and plants interact within ecosystems and the movement of matter among organisms.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A ___________ makes its own energy and begins the food chain.
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NGSS.MS-LS1-6
NGSS.MS-LS2-3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A diagram that shows the transfer of energy in one line is a...
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NGSS.MS-LS2-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
A _______________ cannot make its own energy and eats only plants for their energy.
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NGSS.MS-LS1-6
NGSS.MS-LS2-3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A type of consumer that eats primary consumers is called a...
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NGSS.MS-LS2-3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A type of consumer that eats only meat is called a...
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A type of consumer that eats both meat and plants is called a...
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
_____________ are an example of decomposers.
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NGSS.HS-LS2-6
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