WorksheetsFood Chains and Food Webs
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the starting source energy for all food chains?
a)
grass
b)
sun
c)
bug
d)
mushrooms
2.
What is this called in a food chain?
a)
Producer
b)
Consumer
c)
Decomposer
3.
What is this?
a)
Producer
b)
Consumer
c)
Decomposer
4.
What is a food chain?
a)
A necklace.
b)
Jewelry made of food.
c)
A path showing how energy moves from one living thing to another.
d)
A life cycle.
5.
Which of the following is a herbivore?
a)
cricket
b)
frog
c)
hawk
d)
shrew
6.
The shrew provides energy for the _______?
a)
cricket
b)
grasshopper
c)
frog
d)
snake
7.
The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?
a)
They point to the organism that is being eaten.
b)
It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
c)
They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms.
d)
They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.
8.
What is this called?
a)
Food Web
b)
Food Chain
c)
Abiotic Factors
9.
What is this called?
a)
Food Web
b)
Food Chain
c)
Abiotic Factors
10.
What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?
a)
The insects in the habitat would increase.
b)
The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
c)
The willow tree population would decrease.
d)
Foxes would dies due to no food source.
11.
The fox in this food web would be considered a:
a)
Carnivore
b)
Producer
c)
Herbivore
d)
Omnivore
12.
Where does the energy start in this food chain?
a)
Plant
b)
Sun
c)
Deer
d)
Wolf
13.
Which organism do the owl and the weasel compete for in the food web?
a)
Hawk
b)
Spider
c)
Grasshopper
d)
Shrew
14.
Does this food web have arrows pointing the right way?
a)
Yes
b)
No
15.
Which of the following would be the most likely effect, if there were a sudden increase in the cricket population?
a)
There would be a decrease in the small bird population.
b)
There would be a decrease in the grass/flowers population.
c)
There would be a decrease in the mice population.
d)
There would be an increase in the grass/flowers population.
16.
Does this food web have arrows pointing the right way?
a)
yes
b)
no
17.
The food chain is the sequence in which energy is transferred.
a)
true
b)
false
18.
An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
19.
Carnivores that hunt and eat other animals.
a)
carnivores
b)
predators
20.
Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up....
a)
food web
b)
food chain
c)
niche
d)
symbiosis
21.
Is the rabbit in the same food chain as the owl?
a)
No
b)
Yes
22.
An animal that kills another animal for food is called
a)
prey
b)
predator
c)
producer
d)
herbivore
23.
What is missing from this food chain?
Grass > Grasshopper > Bird > Snake
Grass > Grasshopper > Bird > Snake
a)
Producer
b)
Primary Consumer
c)
Secondary Consumer
d)
Decomposer
24.
What are decomposers?
a)
Bacteria,fungi....
b)
Sheeps, cows....
c)
Flies, birds....
d)
Fish, Shark....
25.
Who is the consumer in this food chain?
a)
The grass
b)
The rabbit
c)
The rabbit and fox
d)
The fox
26.
Who is the producer in this food chain?
a)
The rabbit
b)
The grass
c)
The fox
d)
There is no such thing as a producer
27.
A consumer that hunts is called:
a)
a producer.
b)
an omnivore.
c)
a predator.
d)
a herbivore.
28.
An Example of Predator and prey is...
a)
cats and dogs
b)
rats
c)
deer and bunny
d)
bear and deer, the bear eats the deer
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