Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs

Four organisms are illustrated here. Which organism can make its own food?

• Rabbit

• Daisy

• Mushroom

• Earthworm

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An elephant gets the energy it needs to survive when it __________.

• Drinks water from streams

• Warms itself in the sun

• Eats grass and leaves

• Sleeps on the ground

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A pond food chain is illustrated here. In this food chain, the large fish gets it energy by __________.

• absorbing sunlight

• eating plants

• preying on small fish

• being food for the hawk

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A prairie food web is illustrated here. If all of the squirrels were removed from this food web, which animal population will most likely decrease first?

• Antelopes

• Coyotes

• Mountain lions

• Hawks

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A pond food web is illustrated here. If a pesticide killed all the insect larvae in this food web, all of the following would immediately result EXCEPT _________.

• bass would have more minnows to eat

• snails would have more algae available

• sunfish would be forced to eat more snails

• minnows would lose a source of energy

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Pick all examples of a decomposer.

• Fungi

• Bacteria

• Mushrooms

• Cow

• Vulture

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Energy that moves through the organisms in a food web originally comes from the _________.

• Moon

• Sun

• Water

• Soil

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Which of the following is an example of a producer?

• Rabbit

• Insect

• Grass

• Bird

Which of the following processes best describes how plants get their energy? Plants get their energy by ________.

• using sunlight to make food

• absorbing it from the soil

• removing the energy from water

• putting gases into the air

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The diagram shows how energy flows through a prairie food web. If all the grasshoppers were removed, how many organisms would lose a source of energy?

• Four

• Five

• Six

• Seven

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