Ecology Food Chain

What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a ecosystem are connected.

• All of the things that a particular animal eats.

• How plants create their own food.

• A single path of energy transfer within a ecosystem.

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Who does the owl get energy from? 

• Grass

• Grasshopper

• Mouse

• Ow

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Who is the producer in this food chain? 

• Grass

• Grasshopper

• Mouse

• Ow

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Who does the grasshopper get energy from? 

• Grass

• Grasshopper

• Mouse

• Ow

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In this food chain, what will happen if the frogs become extinct?

• The snakes will increase.

• The grasshoppers will decrease.

• The eagles will remain the same.

• The grasshoppers will increase.

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

• Sun

• Orca

• Seal

• Larvae

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Which type of consumer is always a primary consumer?

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Carnivore

• Producer

_________ is a model that shows the path of energy as it flows from living to another.

• food chain

• model

• food web

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.

• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.

• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 

• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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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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