Unit 8: Flow of Energy Quiz

This is a woodland food web. Where do you think plants get their energy?

• The ground

• The Sun

• The water

• The Air

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Observe the food web below. If a fire destroyed this ecosystem, which organism would be the last to return?

• grass

• mouse

• rabbit

• hawk

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Forest fires cause a rapid change in an ecosystem. After the fire has burned off all the vegetation which of the following would most likely happen?

• Wildlife must leave until the forest returns.

• People do not rebuild homes or businesses.

• Plants will not grow ever again.

• Water sources are permanently polluted.

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Observe the forest food web below. After a forest fire, many of the animals move to a different location because there is no food available in the ecosystem. The first plants to return to the ecosystem are the grasses. Based on the food web above, the first animals to return to the ecosystem are —

• Deer

• Grasshoppers

• Finches

• Chipmunks

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The diagram below shows a grassland food web. Which of the following answers show one of the ways that energy flows in the grassland food web?

• Sunlight → grasses → deer → mice

• Snakes → mice → grasses → sunlight

• Sunlight → shrubs → deer → mountain lions

• Snakes → hawks → mountain lions → sunlight

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The arrows in a food web represent the flow of energy. What could be added to make the flow of energy complete?

• A producer at the beginning

• A consumer at the end

• The Sun at the beginning

• The Sun at the end

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The illustration shows a food chain. Which organisms are consumers?

• Grass, grasshopper, hawk

• Snake, grass, mouse

• Snake, hawk, grass, mouse

• Grasshopper, mouse, snake, hawk

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Which of the following organisms is not a consumer?

• mouse

• ant

• daisy

• duck

An organism that creates nutrients using energy from the sun, is known as a -

• predator

• scavenger

• herbivore

• producer

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In order for tomato plants to make their own food, their leaves must absorb —

• rain

• sunlight

• oxygen

• minerals

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