Food Webs MTSS

Which of the following organisms is a producer?

• grass

• rabbit

• fox

• snake

Which of the following organisms is a primary consumer?

• grass

• rabbit

• fox

• snake

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Which of the following organisms in competition with the weasel for their food source?

• grass

• rabbit

• fox

• snake

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What would happen to the rabbit population if the fox population moved out of the area represented by the food web?

• The rabbit population would increase

• The rabbit population would decrease

• The rabbit population would neither increase nor decrease

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What might happen if you remove a primary consumer from the ecosystem?

• There would be more food for secondary consumers.
• The number of primary consumers would increase.
• The number of plants would increase.
• The number of secondary consumers would increase.

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A frog eats a fly. The frog and fly are demonstrating ________.

• mutualism
• competition
• predator/prey
• parasitism

All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

• Water
• Sun
• Consumers
• Oxygen

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What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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What does a food web represent?

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