Food Webs and Food Chains Quiz

What is a food chain?

• An animal that is at the top of the food web.

• A model made of intersecting food chains.

• A sequence of living things in which each one feeds on the one below it.

• A process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar.

What is a food web?

• A model made of intersecting food chains.

• A sequence of living things in which each one feeds on the one below it.

• A process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar.

• An animal that is at the top of the food web.

Where does the energy in almost all food come from?

• The moon

• The ocean

• The sun

• The soil

What is a decomposer?

• A sequence of living things in which each one feeds on the one below it.

• An organism that eats dead and decaying matter.

• An animal that is at the top of the food web.

• A plant that makes its own food.

Why do animals eat other animals?

• To make friends.

• To travel faster.

• To build homes.

• To obtain energy and nutrients.

What are producers?

• Animals that eat other animals.

• Plants that produce their own food through photosynthesis.

• Organisms that break down dead matter.

• Animals that are at the top of the food web.

What role does the eagle play in the food web?

• A herbivore

• An apex predator

• A decomposer

• A producer

What do zebras eat?

• Fish

• Grass

• Insects

• Birds

What is the role of worms, bacteria, and fungi in a food web?

• They are herbivores.

• They are apex predators.

• They are decomposers.

• They are producers.

How can human actions affect food webs?

• By planting more trees.

• By increasing the number of decomposers.

• By creating more food chains.

• By over-hunting predators and causing imbalance.