Food Chains and Animal Nutrition

Why do animals need food?

• Animals need food for energy, growth, and bodily functions.
• Animals need food to communicate with each other.

• Animals eat food to look pretty.
• Animals need food to sleep better.

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Which is NOT a reason why animals eat food?

• To maintain body temperature
• To gain energy for movement
• To repair their body

• To impress other animals
• To grow

Where can consumers get their energy from?

• Plants

• Animals

• Rocks

• Dirt

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A food web and a food chain are the same thing

• True
• False

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What is the main purpose of a food chain?

• To show how energy flows from one organism to another

• To help animals find friends

• To decorate the environment

• To make plants grow faster

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

• Grass

• Lion

• Eagle

• Wolf

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Which statement is true about food webs?

• They only include animals.

• They do not include plants.

• They show how different food chains are connected.

• They are always shorter than food chains.

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Which of the following best describes a consumer in a food chain?

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that eats other organisms

• An organism that decomposes waste

• An organism that provides shelter

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What would most likely happen if all the producers in a food web disappeared?

• Consumers would increase in number.

• Decomposers would become producers.

• Predators would become producers.

• The entire food web would collapse.

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In a food web energy is....

• transferred to different organisms

• converted into heat
• lost in the environment
• Stored in the body of the organisms

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