Food energy quiz

How would you classify plants?

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Primary Consumer

• Primary Producer

Which of the following is a food chain in the food web?

• Rabbit, mountain lion, fox

• Grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk

• Grass, caterpillar, robin, mountain lion

• Tree, deer, mountain lion, fox

Which of the following is defined as a consumer that must get its food from a different source than itself?

• Producer

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Homotroph

Food chains and webs typically start with which kind of organism?

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

What is the purpose of a decomposer?

• To break down dead materials and waste from consumers

• Eat living organisms

• Perform photosynthesis to make carbohydrates

• Make carbohydrates using chemical energy.

Match the following:

• Plant

• Herbivore

• Owl

• Tertiary Consumer

• Grasshopper

• Producer/Autotroph

• Snake

• Secondary Consumer

• Bird

• Apex Predator

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.
• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
• The willow tree population would decrease.
• Foxes would dies due to no food source. 

The largest population of organisms found in a food web would be:

• Primary Consumers
• Producers
• Decomposers
• Tertiary Consumers

How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?

• .1%

• 1%

• 10%

• 100%

If there is 2000 kcal (units) of energy at the producer level in this particular ecosystem, how many kcal of energy will be available for hawk?

• 2000 kcal

• 200 kcal

• 20 kcal

• 2 kcal

• 0.2 kcal