Food Chains & Food Webs (5.9B)

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a ecosystem.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

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If the grasshopper were to be removed completely from the food web, what organism would be most effected?

• The squirrel
• The shrew
• The deer
• The rabbit

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This food web represents organisms in a field. What role do raccoons play in this food web? (5.9B)

• Prey

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Consumer

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A partial food web of a pond ecosystem is shown. Which type of organism is missing from this food web? (5.9B)

• Decomposers

• Producers

• Predators

• Consumers

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All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

• Water
• Sun
• Consumers
• Oxygen

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

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An animal that eats other animals is a....

• carnivore
• omnivore
• herbivore
• decomposer

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Bears eat fish, insects, plants, seeds, nuts and young elk. They are called __________.

• Franivore
• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Omnivore

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An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:

• Producer
• Heterotroph
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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What do you call an animal that hunts and eats other animals?

• Prey
• Producer
• Predator 
• Decomposer