Food Chains and Webs

Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem
• Food flowing through an ecosystem
• Consumers going into other consumers
• Who eats who

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

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What are animals called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Plants

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What are the organisms that break down dead plants and animals?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Organisms

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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

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What is the role of a producer?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Gain energy from eating other organisms
• Keep other species from overpopulating
• Breaking down dead stuff 

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What's the role of consumers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food 
• Eat other species and keep them from overpopulating
• Break down dead plants and animals

• Add nutrients to the soil

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What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Eat other organisms to gain energy
• Make the food for the whole food chain
• Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

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Which type of consumer eats plants only?

• Herbivores
• Omnivores
• Carnivores
• Scavengers