Food Chain

What is a producer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.

• Organism that eat other organisms for energy

• Organism that eat other dead organisms

Where do all life forms get their energy?

• Food

• Water

• Plants

• The Sun

An organism that lives by breaking apart dead animal and plants into simpler parts is...

• scavenger

• consumer

• decomposer

• carnivore

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

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

• decomposer

Animals that are being hunted and eaten by predators.

• prey

• extinct

Recently, a family of bobcats(predator) moved into an area with a large rabbit(prey) population. What changes may occur in the food chain?

• The rabbit population may increase

• The rabbit population may decrease

• The rabbit population may increase first, then decrease

• The rabbit population will remain the same

A population of mice lives in a barn community. A cat population has just joined the community. What will happen?

• Mouse and cat populations both go up?

• Mouse and cat populations both go down

• Mouse population goes down as cat population goes up

• Mouse population goes up as cat population goes down

An animal that eats only plants is an...

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

• decomposer

Where an animal lives is called the animal's ______

• wildlife

• habitat

• environment 

• carnivore 

A food chain is:

• an animal that eats only plants.

• a diagram that shows how energy moves from one organism to another. (Grass>Mouse>Owl)

• An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.