Food Chain Quiz

In a certain ecosystem, wolves eat rabbits, and rabbits eat berries and leaves. During a year with little rain, there were fewer leaves and berries for rabbits to eat. That year the number of wolves in the ecosystem decreased. Which is the BEST explanation for why this happened?

• The wolves ate diseased rabbits.

• There were fewer rabbits for the wolves to eat.

• There was little water for the wolves to drink.

• The wolves ate fewer leaves and berries.

Which organism in this food chain is the producer?

• seaweed

• clam

• starfish

• seagull

What will happen if many of the grasshoppers died from pesticides?

• the shrew will eat grass

• the shrew will have less to eat

• the owl will eat grasshoppers

• the owl will have more food to eat

How does the lizard get its energy in this food chain?

• The lizard eats the maize.

• The locust eats the lizard.

• The lizard eats the snake.

• The lizard eats the locust.

Match the following

• Organism

• The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

• Food Chain

• An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals

• Consumer

• A single, self-contained, living thing

• Producer

• An organism that use sunlight to make its own food for energy

• Energy

• What is needed to do work or cause change

What type of organism makes their own food during photosynthesis?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

What type of organism eats other living things?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

What type of organism gets nutrients by breaking down dead plants and animals?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

Which organism is a decomposer?

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Which organism is a producer?

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