Producers, Consumers, and Food Web

Four organisms are illustrated below. Which organism can make its own Food?

• Rabbit

• Daisy

• Mushroom

• Earthworm

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The flow of energy in a prairie food web is shown in the diagram. If a highway were built through the middle of the prairie that destroyed most of the grass, what might the effect be on other organisms?

• Snakes would be forced to eat more mice.

• Robins would eat a different food than squirrels

• Mountain lions would hunt more squirrels

• Deer would move elsewhere to find food.

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The diagram illustrates a gulf coast food web. The herring gull depends directly on all of the following organisms for food except -

• blue crab

• grass shrimp

• diamondback terrapin

• sheepshead minnow

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Plants get their food by:

• The sun, water and carbon dioxide

• eating animals or insects for energy

• absorbing it from the soil

• taking nutrients from the air

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This global food web shows how parts of a meadow ecosystem interact with parts of a marsh ecosystem. Which of these is a food chain that is part of the global food web?

• meadow grass → rabbit → fox → hawk

• marsh grass → snail → small fish → hawk

• marsh grass → grasshopper → mouse → fox

• meadow grass → grasshopper → praying mantis → small fish

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Which of the following best describes a food web?

• A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass

• A complex network of interconnected food chains

• A single path of energy flow in an ecosystem

• A diagram showing only producers and consumers

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Which of the following is an example of a producer in a food web?

• Lion

• Grass

• Mushroom

• Eagle

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Based on the Properties of Aquatic Organisms table, which organism is a producer?

• Grass Shrimp

• Phytoplankton

• Water Snail

• Zooplankton

What living things in the food web are producers?

• rabbit and mouse

• hawk and snake

• wildflowers and grass

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Which organism in this food web is an herbivore?

• Frog

• Grasshopper

• Mouse

• Snake