Understanding Food Webs and Food Chains

What is the primary role of producers in a food chain?

• To make their own food using sunlight

• To eat other animals

• To consume both plants and animals

• To decompose organic matter

Which of the following animals is an example of a herbivore?

• Rabbit

• Fox

• Hawk

• Snake

What does a food web illustrate that a food chain does not?

• The complex connections between multiple food chains

• The direct line of who eats whom

• The role of producers

• The flow of energy in a single chain

What might happen if all herbivores disappear from a food web?

• Carnivores would have nothing to eat

• Producers would overpopulate

• Omnivores would become herbivores

• The food web would remain unaffected

SCR

Why is it important to protect all parts of the food web?