Food Chain Test

In a food chain, there are producers, consumers, and decomposers. What is the role of a producer in a food chain?

• to eat plants

• to make food

• to eat other living things

• to break down dead things

A bird kills and eats an insect for food and energy. Which best describes the bird?

• It is a predator.

• It is a producer.

• It is a herbivore.

• It performs photosynthesis.

A food chain shows how living things depend on other living things for energy. Which of the following correctly shows how energy moves through a food chain?

• grass → oak tree → human

• grass → chicken → human

• human → chicken → grass

• chicken → grass → human

This picture shows a food chain in the ocean.

How does the small fish get energy?

• by eating algae

• by eating the shark

• by eating a consumer

• by eating the sea lion

Some living things, such as rabbits, eat only plants. What is the name for living things that eat only plants?

• carnivores

• consumers

• herbivores

• producers