Food Chains

Why is the insect a consumer?

• It is eaten by a mouse.
• It can make its own food.
• It eats the plant.

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In the food chain pictured, the source of energy for the water plant is ______.

• Sun
• Water Plant
• Mayfly
• Trout

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Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem
• Food flowing through an ecosystem
• Consumers going into other consumers
• Who eats who

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

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All organisms need _____ to survive.

• Environment
• energy
• sun
• plants

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What does a food chain contain? Choose ALL correct answers.

• consumer
• producer
• decomposer
• all of the above

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What do the arrows show in a food chain picture?

• They always point to the smallest animals.
• They point to the animal that tastes the best.
• They always point to the producers.
• They point in the direction that energy is flowing.

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Which food chain is in the correct order?

• Sun, bird, caterpillar, plant
• bird, caterpillar, plant, Sun
• Sun, plant, caterpillar, bird
• caterpillar, Sun, bird, plant

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What is one example of the way that energy flows in the food chain above?

• Energy flows from grass to the Sun

• Energy flows from hawks to snakes

• Energy flows from grasshoppers to finches

• Energy flows from snakes to finches

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In this food chain, where does the lizard get its energy from?

• plant

• grasshopper

• mushrooms

• sun

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