Food Chains and Food Webs

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste
• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment makes up a 

• food web
• ecosystem
• food chain
• population

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What is a herbivore?

• an animal that gets energy from eating other animals
• an organism that gets energy from eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals
• an animal that eats only herbs

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________.

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• prey

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An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste is a(an) ___________.

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

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What is a carnivore?

• an animal that gets energy by eating other animals
• An animal that gets energy by eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals
• an animal that makes its own energy through photosynthesis

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A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________.

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment
• population

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Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

Where do all life forms get their energy?

• Earth's Core
• Water
• Plants
• The Sun

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In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in each level gets lost as heat or used by the organism for survival?

• 80%
• 90%
• 10%
• 20%

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