Quiz about Food Chains and Food Webs

Question 1

What are plants called in a food chain?

Accepted Answer

Producers

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Consumers

Answer

Decomposers

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Scavengers

Question 2

What are animals called in a food chain?

Accepted Answer

Consumers

Answer

Producers

Answer

Decomposers

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Plants

Question 3

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

Accepted Answer

Decomposers

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Producers

Answer

Consumers

Answer

Organisms

Question 4

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

Accepted Answer

Sun

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Plant

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Deer

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Wolf

Question 5

What is the role of a producer?

Accepted Answer

Use sunlight to make food

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Gain energy from eating other organisms

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Keep other species from overpopulating

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Breaking down dead stuff

Question 6

What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

Accepted Answer

Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil

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Use sunlight to make food

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Eat other organisms to gain energy

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Make the food for the whole food chain

Question 7

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

Accepted Answer

Hawk

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Plant

Answer

Rabbit

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Mouse

Question 8

Which type of consumer eats plants only?

Accepted Answer

Herbivores

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Omnivores

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Carnivores

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Scavengers

Question 9

Which type of consumer eats meat only?

Accepted Answer

Carnivores

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Producers

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Herbivores

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Omnivores

Question 10

Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?

Accepted Answer

Omnivores

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Herbivores

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Carnivores

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Plants

Question 11

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

Accepted Answer

They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms.

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They point to the organism that is being eaten.

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It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.

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They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

Question 12

What does a food web represent?

Accepted Answer

All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.

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The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

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A single pathway or energy flow between organisms.

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How carnivores get their food.

Question 13

The diagram shows an example of what kind of organism

Accepted Answer

Decomposer

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Autotroph

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Heterotroph

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Herbivore

Question 14

This giraffe is an example of a _______________________________.

Accepted Answer

Herbivore

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Carnivore

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Omnivore

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Autotroph

Question 15

These mushroom are heterotrophs and must therefore get nutrients from other organic matter. Mushroom aslo act as ____________________ in many food webs.

Accepted Answer

Decomposer

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Herbivore

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Carnivore

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Omnivore

Question 16

In this image, the grass is the ______________.

Accepted Answer

Producer

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Primary Consumer

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Secondary Consumer

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Heterotroph

Question 17

Given that the bear pictured eat many types of food including meats and plants, he is an example of an ______________________.

Accepted Answer

Omnivore

Answer

Autotroph

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Herbivore

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Producer

Question 18

This graphic diagrams a _______________________.

Accepted Answer

Answer

<p>Food Chain</p>

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Food Pyramid

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Food Buffet

Question 19

The diagram below is an example of _______________

Accepted Answer

Food Chain

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Food Web

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Food Pyramid

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Food Buffet

Question 20

All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

Accepted Answer

Sun

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Water

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Consumers

Answer

Oxygen

Question 21

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

Accepted Answer

snake

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cricket

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grasshopper

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frog

Question 22

Bears eat fish, insects, plants, seeds, nuts and young elk. They are called __________.

Accepted Answer

Omnivore

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Franivore

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Carnivore

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Herbivore

Question 23

An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:

Accepted Answer

Producer

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Heterotroph

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Consumer

Answer

Decomposer

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