Bio U5 L1-5 Problem Set

Organism that makes its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• predator

Organism that eats other things for food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• prey

Passing of energy, in the form of food, from one organism to another

• food cycle

• food network

• food chain

• food system

Overlapping food chains

• food cycle

• food network

• food system

• food web

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.

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.

Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them. 
• They may eat more than one other organism. 
• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources. 
• They have no resources available to them.

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 image provided is an example of a:

• Producer
• Heterotroph
• Consumer
• Decomposer

TRUE  or FALSE: Food webs are several food chains that are linked together.

• TRUE
• FALSE