Food Chain Webs

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

• More than one organism may eat them. 

• They may eat more than one other organism. 

• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources. 

• They have no resources available to them.

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Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem

• Food flowing through an ecosystem

• Consumers going into other consumers

• Who eats who

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

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What are animals called in a food chain?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Plants

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant

• Sun

• Deer

• Wolf

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

• Use sunlight to make food 

• Eat other species and keep them from overpopulating

• Break down dead stuff

• Add nutrients to the soil

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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 type of consumer eats meat only?

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

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Why is a food web with many links more sustainable (reliable) than a food web with few links?

• many links provides more food sources

• many links provides less food sources

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How much energy is LOST from one trophic level to the next?

• 10%

• 100%

• 90%

• 50%

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