Everglades Food Web Quiz

What is a food web?

• A community of plants and animals

• A complex community of organisms that interact with each other

• A simple way to illustrate the flow of matter and energy through an ecosystem

• A network of intersecting food chains

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What does a food web illustrate?

• The complexity of different connections in an ecosystem

• The interaction between producers and consumers

• The flow of matter and energy through an ecosystem

• The hierarchy of organisms in an ecosystem

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What is a primary consumer in a food web?

• An organism that feeds on other animals

• An organism that is at the top of the food chain

• An organism that feeds on producers

• An organism that feeds on both plants and animals

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What is an example of a secondary consumer in the Everglades food web?

• Raccoon

• Limpkin

• Sailfin molly

• Great blue heron

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What does the purple gallinule eat?

• Fruit of a spatterdock plant

• Aquatic plants

• Baby red-bellied turtle

• Freshwater apple snails

What do you call an organism that eats both animals and plants?

• Carnivore

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

What happens if you remove something from the food web?

• The ecosystem becomes unbalanced

• The food chain becomes longer

• The food web becomes simpler

• The remaining organisms thrive

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What is an example of an invasive species in the Everglades?

• Burmese python

• White-tailed deer

• Great blue heron

• Gambuzia

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What is the main idea of the food web?

• The ecosystem is a simple network of life

• Plants and animals do not interact with each other

• Some organisms are more important than others

• All plants and animals rely on each other for survival

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What analogy is used to describe the network of life in the ecosystem?

• A straight line

• A tangled web

• A finely-woven tapestry

• A simple chain