Food Chain Flocabulary Quiz

Decomposers do not need energy to live

• True
• False

How does the food chain start?

• Plant life uses energy from the sun to make food.

• Insects like grasshoppers eat plant life.
• Animals like rats eat insects.
• Humans eat large animals and plant life.

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What do we call an animal that gets eaten in a food chain?

• prey
• predator
• producer
• consumer

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An animal cannot be both a predator and prey.

• True
• False

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Which of the following are producers? (only one correct answer)

• plants
• humans
• snakes
• birds

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What is the role of decomposers in the food chain?

• to consume plants and animals
• to produce food using energy from the sun
• to eat decaying matter and return nutrients to the soil
• to hunt prey

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Seals eat fish. What would happen to the seal population if almost all the fish died?

• The population would grow.
• The population would shrink.

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Lions eat zebras. What would happen to the zebra population if almost all the lions died?

• The population would grow.
• The population would shrink.

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Aardvarks eat termites. Aardvarks are termites' _____________.

• consumers
• producers
• prey
• predators

How do consumers get energy to live?

• They make their own food from the soil.
• They break down decaying matter.
• They make their own food from the sun.
• They eat other plants and animals.

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