LockeD! - 5.12A - Food Chains and Food Webs #2

A student created a diagram of a food chain for a bulletin board. She gathered pictures and made the diagram shown. What do the arrows in the diagram represent?

• How energy flows between organisms.

• How energy increases along a food chain.

• How energy transfers from consumer to producer.

• How energy remains constant along a food chain.

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The diagram shows a simple food web. Which animal in the diagram is classified as an omnivore?

• red fox

• deer

• black bear

• rabbit

The diagram shows a food chain. Which of the following organisms in the food chain is classified as a producer?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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Look at the food chain. Which of these would NOT be the role of the ladybug?

• Herbivore

• Consumer

• Producer

• Prey

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If disease removed a species of plant from a food web, how would that ecosystem MOST LIKELY be affected?

• All plants in the ecosystem would become extinct.

• The organisms that eat the plant would grow stronger.

• Consumers of the plant would have a smaller food source.

• Producers in the ecosystem would have a smaller energy supply.

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Which of the following BEST explains what this diagram represents?

• Why some organisms only eat plants

• Which animals share the same food

• All the living things that can be found in an ecosystem

• The direction of energy flow from one organism to the next

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Which organism produces oxygen for other organisms?

• A fish

• A water lily

• A blue bird

• A snail

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Which organisms in this food chain are predators?

• Plants and caterpillars

• Caterpillars and frogs

• Frogs and snakes

• Snakes and plants

The picture shows an ocean bay food chain. Sea otters move into the ocean bay and eat all of the sea urchins. This change will MOST LIKELY cause the -

• kelp to have less food

• crabs to have more food

• sea ducks to have less food

• arctic foxes to have more food

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Use the picture to determine which organisms in the food chain are needed in order for all of the other organisms to survive?

• Caterpillars

• Frogs

• Plants

• Snakes

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