Food Webs/Energy Flow

Energy is passed along the organisms in a food chain. What is the original source of the energy?

• decomposers
• consumers
• producers
• sun

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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What is the name for the organism that eats the producer?

• primary consumer
• secondary consumer
• tertiary consumer
• producer

The organism that eats the secondary consumer is called the

• primary consumer
• tertiary consumer
• secondary consumer
• producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the name for the organism that eats the primary consumer?

• secondary consumer
• tertiary consumer
• producer
• decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Which organism is the tertiary consumer in the food chain pictured?

• sea lion
• killer whale
• penguin
• small fish

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which organism is the producer?

• small fish
• penguin
• algae/seaweed
• killer whale

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Earthworms help break down plant and animal remains and return the nutrients back into the soil. What are earthworms?

• consumers
• decomposers
• producers
• predators

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Cows are herbivores, which means that they eat plants. A cow would be which part of the food chain?

• decomposer
• producer
• secondary consumer
• primary consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What does the snake eat?

• frog

• hawk

• mushroom

• grasshopper

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________.

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment
• population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3