Food Chain Energy Flow

What is a food chain?

• The flow of energy from one thing to another

• The way animals eat each other

• The way the sun makes everything

• How the plants grow

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What are animals called in a food chain?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Plants

What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

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Food webs show you everything an animal eats. Food chains show you one thing.

• True

• False

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Which of these is true about this food web?

• The Owl gets its energy from the producer.

• The Lion gets its energy only from a wild cat.

• The Kite gets its energy from the goat.

• The Mouse is most likely to die, several ways.

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What is a producer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.

• Organism that eat other organisms for energy

• Organism that eat other dead organisms

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What is a consumer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.

• Organism that eat other organisms for energy

• Organism that eat other dead organisms

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

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

• decomposer

What is the role of a producer?

• Use sunlight to make food

• Gain energy from eating other organisms

• Keep other species from overpopulating

• Breaking down dead stuff 

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Which of the following shows the proper order of a food chain?

• producer--carnivore--herbivore--decomposer

• producer-- herbivore-- decomposer--carnivore

• producer- herbivore--carnivore- decomposer

• producer-- decomposer- hervibore- carnivore

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