Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs

Plants get their food by:

• The sun, water and carbon dioxide

• eating animals or insects for energy

• absorbing it from the soil

• taking nutrients from the air

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Four organisms are illustrated below. 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. In this food chain, the large fish gets its 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 above. If all 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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Energy that moves through the organisms in a food web originally comes from the -

• Moon

• Sun

• water

• soil

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The flow of energy in a prairie food web is shown in the diagram. If a highway were built through the middle of the prairie that destroyed most of the grass, what might the effect be on other organisms?

• Snakes would be forced to eat more mice.

• Robins would eat a different food than squirrels

• Mountain lions would hunt more squirrels

• Deer would move elsewhere to find food.

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Which of the following is an example of a producer?

• Rabbit

• Insect

• Grass

• Bird

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The diagram illustrates a gulf coast food web. The herring gull depends directly on all of the following organisms for food except -

• blue crab

• grass shrimp

• diamondback terrapin

• sheepshead minnow

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A fire caused by lightning destroyed a forest. What will most likely happen to birds that lived in the forest?

• The birds would move to a new environment

• Other animals would begin to eat the birds

• More birds will move into this environment.

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