5.9.b

The diagram shows a prairie food web. In the food web shown, all of the following are consumers EXCEPT –

• Prairie Grass

• Mountain Lion

• Squirrel

• Robin

In the food web diagram, what do the arrows represent?

• Life Cycle

• Metamorphosis

• How food is produced by organisms

• The flow of energy through an ecosystem

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Mold, fungi, and some types of bacteria are classified as decomposers. What is the role of a decomposer in a food web?

• break down waste and dead organisms

• use sunlight and water to produce their own food

• release oxygen into the atmosphere for respiration

• to provide the energy animals need for food

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The diagram shows a pond food web. What two organisms get their energy directly from insect larvae?

• algae and minnows

• sunfish and bass

• minnows and sunfish

• snails and snapping turtles

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List the steps of the scientific method

d

e

f

c

b

a

Conduct experiment

Ask a question

Communicate results

Draw conclusions

Analyze results

Form a hypothesis

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The diagram shows a woodlands food chain. What is the role of the tree in the food chain?

• make energy available directly to the Hawk

• To use Sun's energy to produce food

• to break down waste left by squirrels

• to provide a place for the hawk to build it's nest

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The prairie food web illustrated here has producers and consumers. In this food web, how many more consumers than producers are there?

• 2

• 5

• 7

• 9

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The diagram shows a food web. What is the original source for all the energy in this food web?

• Algae

• Sun

• Minnows

• Insect Larvae

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The diagram shows an incomplete food chain. Which of the following would best complete this food chain?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Animal

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The diagram illustrates a gulf food web. Which of the following organisms provides energy for more than one other organism in the food web?

• Otter

• Herring Gull

• Blue Crab

• Diamondback Terrapin

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