Food Chains & Energy Transfer

What is a food chain?

• The flow of energy from one thing to another

• The way animals eat each other

• The way the sun makes everything

• How the plants grow

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What is a producer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.
• Organism that eat other organisms for energy
• Organism that eat other dead organisms

An animal that eats other animals is a....

• carnivore
• omnivore
• herbivore
• decomposer

What do Herbivores eat? 

• Plants ONLY 
• Animals ONLY
• Plants AND Animals

What do plants need to make their own food?

• Sun, Water, and Animals

• Sun, Coke, and Soil

• Sun, Water, and Soil

• Nothing at all

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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

What is a consumer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.
• Organism that eat other organisms for energy
• Organism that eat other dead organisms

What is a decomposer?

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

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