Quiz about food chain or food web

Question 1

In the diagram, which organism provides nutrients for the

largest number of other organisms?

Accepted Answer

Snapper

Answer

Seal

Answer

Herring

Answer

Bluefish

Question 2

What is the driving source of energy for the food web to

the right?

Accepted Answer

Sun

Answer

Orca

Answer

Seal

Answer

Larvae

Question 3

Which organisms compete for food in the food web to the

right?

Accepted Answer

Mackerel and Bluefish

Answer

Orca and Herring

Answer

Seal and Copepod

Answer

Killifish and Snapper

Question 4

What are plants called in a food chain?

Accepted Answer

Producers

Answer

Consumers

Answer

Decomposers

Answer

Scavengers

Question 5

What are animals called in a food chain?

Accepted Answer

Consumers

Answer

Producers

Answer

Decomposers

Answer

Plants

Question 6

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

Accepted Answer

Decomposers

Answer

Producers

Answer

Consumers

Answer

Organisms

Question 7

What's the role of consumers in a food chain?

Accepted Answer

Eat other species and keep them from overpopulating

Answer

Use sunlight to make food

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Break down dead stuff

Answer

Add nutrients to the soil

Question 8

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

Accepted Answer

Hawk

Answer

Plant

Answer

Rabbit

Answer

Mouse

Question 9

Which type of consumer is always a first consumer?

Accepted Answer

Herbivore

Answer

Omnivore

Answer

Carnivore

Answer

Producer

Question 10

Which type of consumer could be a first or second consumer?

Accepted Answer

Omnivore

Answer

Herbivore

Answer

Carnivore

Answer

Producer

Question 11

Which of the following is a "primary energy source"?

Accepted Answer

Sun

Answer

Grass

Answer

Bacteria

Answer

Soil

Question 12

Which is the smallest level of an ecosystem?

Accepted Answer

organism

Answer

population

Answer

community

Answer

ecosystem

Question 13

a system of food chains that shows the transfer of energy is termed

Accepted Answer

food web

Answer

food chain

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prey

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predator

Question 14

Which is a producer?

Accepted Answer

tall grass

Answer

deer

Answer

lion

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worm

Question 15

What is this called?

Accepted Answer

Food Web

Answer

Food Chain

Answer

Abiotic Factors

Question 16

What is this called?

Accepted Answer

Food Chain

Answer

Food Web

Answer

Abiotic Factors

Question 17

If a frog is the prey, what could be the predator?

Accepted Answer

Snake

Answer

Grass

Answer

Insect

Answer

Snail

Question 18

What does a Primary Consumer eat?

Accepted Answer

Producers

Answer

Tertiary Consumers

Answer

Secondary Consumers

Question 19

An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts is...

Accepted Answer

decomposer

Answer

scavenger

Answer

consumer

Answer

carnivore

Question 20

A third-level consumer has to be which type?

Accepted Answer

Carnivore.

Answer

Decomposer.

Answer

Producer.

Answer

Herbivore.

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

carnivore

Answer

omnivore

Answer

herbivore

Answer

decomposer

Question 22

In a food web, arrows point at:

Accepted Answer

who gets energy.

Answer

who gets eaten.

Question 23

What does a food web represent?

Accepted Answer

All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a ecosystem.

Answer

The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

Answer

A single pathway or energy flow between organisms.

Answer

How carnivores get their food.

Question 24

Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of:

Accepted Answer

decomposers

Answer

scavengers

Answer

predators

Answer

prey

Question 25

What is missing from this food chain?
Grass > Grasshopper > Bird > Snake

Accepted Answer

Decomposer

Answer

Producer

Answer

Primary Consumer

Answer

Secondary Consumer

Question 26

Which of the following is a herbivore?

Accepted Answer

cricket

Answer

frog

Answer

hawk

Answer

shrew

Question 27

A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment makes up a

Accepted Answer

ecosystem

Answer

food web

Answer

food chain

Question 28

__________ is an organism that only eats meat for energy.

Accepted Answer

Carnivore

Answer

Omnivore

Answer

Borivore

Answer

Herbivore

Question 29

__________ is an organism that eats BOTH plants and animals for energy.

Accepted Answer

Omnivore

Answer

Darnivore

Answer

Carnivore

Answer

Herbiovre

Question 30

Lions only eat buffalo, antelopes, zebras and crocodiles. They are called __________.

Accepted Answer

Carnivore

Answer

Omnivore

Answer

Herbivore

Answer

Delivore

Question 31

Bears eat fish, insects, plants, seeds, nuts and young elk. They are called __________.

Accepted Answer

Omnivore

Answer

Franivore

Answer

Carnivore

Answer

Herbivore

Question 32

If the grasshopper were to be removed completely from the food web, what organism would be most effected?

Accepted Answer

The shrew

Answer

The squirrel

Answer

The deer

Answer

The rabbit

Question 33

Which organism recieves the least amount of energy from the producer?

Accepted Answer

Owl

Answer

Grasshopper

Answer

Lilypad

Answer

Mouse

Question 34

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

Accepted Answer

Consumer

Answer

Autotroph

Answer

Producer

Answer

Mutualist

Question 35

All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

Accepted Answer

Sun

Answer

Water

Answer

Consumers

Answer

Oxygen

Question 36

An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:

Accepted Answer

Producer

Answer

Heterotroph

Answer

Consumer

Answer

Decomposer

Question 37

What does a food chain represent?

Accepted Answer

A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

Answer

How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.

Answer

All of the things that a particular animal eats.

Answer

How plants create their own food.

Question 38

An energy pyramid represents what?

Accepted Answer

The amount of energy available to the next 'feeder' in a food web.

Answer

How much sunlight is available for the ecosystem to use.

Answer

How much energy a particular organism needs.

Answer

How much energy is needed to build a pyramid.

Question 39

Why is there a limited amount of energy that can be passed on to the next feeding level?

Accepted Answer

Organisms use some of the energy they get from eating.

Answer

There is never enough sunlight available.

Answer

Some ecosystems have limited resources.

Answer

All the energy is available to be passed on.

Question 40

Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

Accepted Answer

More than one organism may eat them.

Answer

They may eat more than one other organism.

Answer

This organism gets its energy from multiple sources.

Answer

They have no resources available to them.

Question 41

The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:

Accepted Answer

Producers

Answer

Primary Consumers

Answer

Decomposers

Answer

Tertiary Consumers

Question 42

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

Accepted Answer

The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.

Answer

The insects in the habitat would increase.

Answer

The willow tree population would decrease.

Answer

Foxes would dies due to no food source.

Question 43

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

Accepted Answer

Primary Consumer

Answer

Decomposer

Answer

Producer

Answer

Secondary Consumer

Question 44

The image provided is an example of a:

Accepted Answer

Producer

Answer

Heterotroph

Answer

Consumer

Answer

Decomposer

Question 45

A consumer gets energy by doing what?

Accepted Answer

Feeding on other organisms.

Answer

Making it themselves.

Answer

Breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returning raw materials to the ecosystem.

Answer

Soaking it up from the ground.

Question 46

True or False. In this Food Web Pyramid the consumers on each level only get about 10 percent of energy that the plants have stored.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 47

In this Food Web Pyramid what is the proper name for the organisms above the producer level at the bottom.

Accepted Answer

consumers

Answer

herbivores

Answer

carnivores

Answer

omnivores

Question 48

In this ecological pyramid which type of consumer gets only 10% of the energy stored in plants?

Accepted Answer

Herbivore

Answer

Carnivore

Answer

Omnivore

Answer

Secondary Consumer

Question 49

What percentage of energy is passed on to each tropic level?

Accepted Answer

10%

Answer

50%

Answer

90%

Answer

100%

Question 50

An organism that eats the secondary consumer.

Accepted Answer

Tertiary Consumer

Answer

Primary Consumer

Answer

Secondary Consumer

Answer

Consumer

Question 51

Energy increases as you move up the food pyramid (from bottom to top).

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 52

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

Accepted Answer

food web

Answer

ecosystem

Answer

environment

Question 53

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

Accepted Answer

Sun

Answer

Plant

Answer

Deer

Answer

Wolf

Question 54

Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

Accepted Answer

Energy flow through an ecosystem

Answer

Food flowing through an ecosystem

Answer

Consumers going into other consumers

Answer

Who eats who

food chain or food web

54 questions

In the diagram, which organism provides nutrients for the
largest number of other organisms?

What is the driving source of energy for the food web to
the right?

Which organisms compete for food in the food web to the
right?

What are plants called in a food chain?

What are animals called in a food chain?

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

What's the role of consumers in a food chain?

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

Which type of consumer is always a first consumer?

Which type of consumer could be a first or second consumer?

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food chain or food web

54 questions

In the diagram, which organism provides nutrients for thelargest number of other organisms?

What is the driving source of energy for the food web tothe right?

Which organisms compete for food in the food web to theright?

What are plants called in a food chain?

What are animals called in a food chain?

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

What's the role of consumers in a food chain?

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

Which type of consumer is always a first consumer?

Which type of consumer could be a first or second consumer?

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In the diagram, which organism provides nutrients for the
largest number of other organisms?

What is the driving source of energy for the food web to
the right?

Which organisms compete for food in the food web to the
right?