Food Chains/Food Webs

According to the text, what is a food chain?

• The diet of herbivores in an ecosystem.

• All the producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem.

• How energy and nutrients move through any ecosystem.

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What is the source of energy in almost all food chains?

• Producers

• The sun

• Herbavores

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What are the main producers in water systems?

• bacteria and fish

• fish and plankton

• algae and plants

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What do all food chains end with?

• producers

• consumers

• the sun

• decomposers

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Food chains are not usually _______.

• complex

• short

• accurate

• long

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Many food chains ________ in an ecosystem

• collide

• fall apart

• overlap

• mess up

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Food webs represent the _________________________ in the many different food chains of a particular ecosystem.

• flow of energy

• scarcity of animals

• leadership

• circular nature

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Herbivores eat __________, carnivores eat __________, and omnivores eat ___________.

• consumers, producers, both

• both, consumers, producers

• chips, candy, marshmallows

• producers, consumers, both

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The _____________ of food limits the populations of organisms.

• lack of

• availability

• over-abundance

• diet

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In this food chain energy flows in the direction of the ______ all the way to the ________.

• the sun, the coyote

• the rabbit, the sun

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