Decomposers, Food Chains and Food Webs

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Organisms

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

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Molds, bacteria, and worms are ________.

• decomposers
• producers
• consumers
• food chains

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Humans are considered...

• consumers
• decomposers
• producers

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A path of energy that flows from one organism to the next (it flows from the sun to the producers to the primary consumers, then to the secondary consumers, to the tertiary consumers).

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Consumers
• Decomposers

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A diagram of several connected food chains.

• Food Chain
• Primary Consumer
• Food Web
• Secondary Consumer

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a ecosystem.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

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If the grasshopper were to be removed completely from the food web, what organism would be most effected?

• The squirrel
• The shrew
• The deer
• The rabbit

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Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them.

• They may eat more than one other organism.

• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources.

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