SC.4.L.17.3

Energy for plants and animals can be traced back to

• the sun
• sugar
• producers
• leaves

Where does the food chain start?

• with animals that eat grass
• with animals that eat other animals
• with plants that eat animals
• with plants that make their own food

What does a food chain show?

• how much food animals eat
• how plants make their own food
• how energy passes to different living things
• how energy is made from sunlight

Tom wants to show how living things get energy. Which sequence is correct?

• sun --> consumer --> decomposer --> producer
• sun --> consumer --> producer --> decomposer
• sun --> decomposer --> producer --> consumer
• sun --> producer --> consumer --> decomposer

Which animal in the following sentence is the predator?
"A mouse is eaten by a barn owl while the deer eats the grass."

• mouse
• barn owl
• deer
• grass

Which animal in the following sequence is considered prey?
Penguin --> Seal --> Polar bear

• penguin
• seal
• both the penguin and seal
• polar bear

In a food chain what does the arrow ( -->) show?

• flow of oxygen
• flow of water
• flow of energy
• flow of food being eaten

In the following food chain - which describes the flow of energy from a producer to a consumer?
Sun--> Algae--> Shrimp--> Perch--> Heron

• perch to heron
• shrimp to perch
• sun to algae
• algae to shrimp

Study the food chain - which living thing fits in the blank?
plants-->  ?    --> lion

• carnivore
• consumer
• producer
• decomposer

In the Everglades, some rabbits eat march grass. Bobcats eat rabbits. How are bobcats and rabbits interacting?

• Rabbits are prey and bobcats are predators
• Rabbits are herbivores and bobcats are prey
• Rabbits are consumers and bobcats are producers
• Rabbits are carnivore and bobcats are herbivores