Food Chains and Food Webs reading questions

What travels through a food chain or food web?

• waste

• energy

• decomposers

• trophic levels

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What is the ultimate energy for all life on Earth?

• vultures

• plants

• sunlight

• autotrophs

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The 1st organism in a food chain must always be what type of organism?

• primary consumer

• herbivore

• secondary consumer

• primary producer

Name 2 food making processes.

• photosynthesis and chemosynthesis

• sunlight and bacteria

• trophic levels and biomes

• producers and consumers

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Where do chemosyntheic bacteria get their energy?

• sunlight

• soil

• nitrogen cycle

• hydrothermal vents

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Define herbivore

• organism that obtains energy from sunlight

• organism that obtains energy from eating autotrophs

• organism that obtains energy from breaking down dead or decaying matter

• organism that obtains energy from eating both plants and animals

Herbivores are also called ____________________.

• primary consumers

• secondary consumers

• predators

• producers

What are animals called that feed on herbivores?

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer

• quaternary consumer

Secondary consumers are eaten by larger _________________________________.

• prey

• predators

• producers

• primary energy source

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__________________________ consumers eat secondary consumers.

• primary

• tertiary

• quartenary

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