Food Chain Adventure

What is a food chain?

• The flow of energy from one thing to another

• How the plants grow

• The way animals eat each other

• The way the sun makes everything

What is a producer? 

• Organism that eat other dead organisms

• Organism that eat other organisms for energy

• Organism that creates their own food.

What is a consumer? 

• Organism that creates their own food

• Organism that eat other dead organisms

• Organism that eat other organisms for energy

A fox eats a rabbit that has eaten grass. What role does the fox play in this food chain?

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

Which type of animal is a herbivore?

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Which of the following correctly lists the order in a simple food chain?

• • Tertiary consumer → Primary consumer → Producer → Secondary consumer

• • Producer → Primary consumer → Secondary consumer → Tertiary consumer

• • Primary consumer → Secondary consumer → Producer → Carnivore

• • Carnivore → Herbivore → Producer → Omnivore

The shortgrass prairie is an ecosystem found in the Great Plains. Many different populations of animals depend on the prairie ecosystem for survival. A typical community includes animals such as snakes, birds, mice, rodents, and insects.

Which food chain most accurately demonstrates the flow of energy in a shortgrass prairie ecosystem?

• grass → grasshopper → bird → rodent → buffalo

• grass → hawk → snake → mouse → grasshopper

• grass → grasshopper → mouse → snake → hawk

• grass → snake → hawk → skunk → mouse

The roadrunner is a desert bird that eats fruits and seeds. It also eats insects, spiders, scorpions, and rattlesnakes.

What would likely happen if the roadrunner population disappeared from its ecosystem?

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Plants produce their own food through...

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What can you infer from the fact that the disappearance of just one species can disrupt an entire food chain?

• Every food chain depends entirely on a single species

• Food chains are extremely fragile

• Every food chain depends entirely on a single species

• Food chains would not exist without humans