Food Chains & Food Webs

What is a Food Chain?

• The reduction of energy from organism to organism.

• The transfer of energy from organism to organism.

• The hunting of animals.

• The death of wild animals.

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What is a food web?

• Multiple organisms linked together.

• A group of wild animals.

• Multiple food chains linked together.

• A group of dead animals.

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Click all of the correct food chains

• Owl - Rat - Corn

• Fox - Carrots - Rabbit - Lion

• Dog - Sheep - Nuts

• Lion - Zebra - Grass

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What is an apex predator?

• The organism at the bottom of the food chain.

• The organism at the top of the food chain.

• The wild animal in the food chain.

• The organism that can fly.

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What is a producer?

• An organism that makes its own food.

• An organism that depends on other organisms to produce its food.

• An organism that eats other animals.

• An organism that produces plants.

What is a consumer?

• An organism that can't make its own food.

• An organism that is eaten by another animal in the food chain.

• An organism that eats other animals in the food chain.

• An organism that is at the bottom of the food chain.

Answer explanation

A consumer is an organism that can't make its own food, like producers. Therefore eating other animals for energy.

Why is a food web called a 'web'?

• Because spiders are at the top of the food chain.

• Because it looks like a spider.

• Because it looks like a spiders web.

• Because a spider invented it.

Answer explanation

Food Webs are called 'webs' because they look like spider webs so much due to all of the food chains everywhere.

What is a primary producer?

• The producer on the first trophic level.

• The producer on the highest trophic level.

• The producer that eats a consumer.

• The consumer that eats a producer.

Answer explanation

Most primary producers are plants.

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What is transferred along a food chain?

• Water

• Food

• Energy

• Air

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What is a tertiary consumer?

• An organism that feeds on only primary consumers.

• An organism that only feeds on secondary consumers.

• An organism that feeds only on primary producers.

• An organism that feeds on only consumers.

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