Food Chains and Food Webs

All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

• Water
• Sun
• Consumers
• Oxygen

What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

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.

The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:

• Primary Consumers
• Producers
• Decomposers
• Tertiary Consumers

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. 

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

If a frog is the prey, what could be the predator?

• Grass
• Insect
• Snake
• Snail

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf