Food Chains and Food Webs

What are animals called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Plants

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

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What is the role of a producer?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Gain energy from eating other organisms
• Keep other species from overpopulating
• Breaking down dead stuff 

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What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Eat other organisms to gain energy
• Make the food for the whole food chain
• Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

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Which of the following is a producer?

• Maple tree
• Sunfish
• Bunny
• Bear

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Which food chain is in the correct order?

• cat, grass, bird, snail
• bird, snail, grass, cat
• grass, snail, bird, cat
• grass, cat, bird, snail

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Example of a decomposer

• fungus
• mouse
• plants
• frogs

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In the food web shown, who is the secondary consumer?

• grass

• mouse

• rabbit

• fox

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