Food Chains Reading Passage

1.) Humans get energy from ____.

• exercising
• eating
• reading
• sleeping

2.) True or False: All of the energy on Earth comes from the sun.

• True
• False

3.) A food chain always starts with ____.

• humans
• predators
• plants
• zebras

4.) How do plants turn sunlight into energy?

• the decompose it
• they consume it
• they eat it
• they photosynthesize it

5.) What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

• food webs are only plants
• food webs are only animals
• food webs are simpler
• food webs are more complicated

6.) In the African savanna example, how does the Zebra get energy?

• from the sun
• from eating the grass
• from eating the lion
• from being eaten

7.) True or False: A lion eats grass to get energy.

• True
• False

8.) Producers are always ____.

• plants
• animals
• bacteria
• worms

9.) True or False: Consumers don’t make energy.

• True
• False

10.) Decomposers like worms, bacteria, and fungi eat ____.

• plants
• animals
• soil
• dead plants and animals