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Worksheet time: 20mins
Food Chains
What are plants and animals that get their energy from eating other things?
Producers
Consumers
decomposers
herbivores
An elephant eats only plants. Which type of consumer is an elephant?
An herbivore
A carnivore
A producer
A decomposer
In a food web, which of these is a producer?
humans
lizards
spiders
grass
What is the role of a decomposer in a food web?
It breaks down dead plants and animals and turns them into minerals.
It produces its own food and provides other organisms with food.
It eats plants
It eats animals
In this food chain, what will happen if the frogs become extinct?
The snakes will increase. More snakes
The grasshoppers will decrease. Less grasshoppers
The eagles will remain the same.
The grasshoppers will increase. More grasshoppers
What is the original source of most food energy?
Water
The Sun
Animals
The soil
Which of these shows the correct energy flow in a food chain?
consumer > decomposer > producer
producer -> consumer -> decomposer
producer -> decomposer -> consumer
decomposer -> producer -> consumer
Which of these resources do producers need to begin a food chain?
minerals
oxygen
sunlight
grasses
Which of the following would be at the end of a food chain?
Coyote
Fungi
Grass
Sheep
What is one way that decomposers are helpful?
They eat living things.
Decomposers eat all of the trash.
They are the main source of energy in the food chain.
They release nutrients from dead organisms into soil.
What role does a plant play in the food chain?
consumer
decomposer
predator
producer
Look at the different food chains and indicate which one is correct.
mouse -> grass -> sun -> bacteria -> coyote
grass -> sun -> coyote -> mouse -> bacteria
sun -> grass -> mouse -> coyote -> bacteria
coyote -> bacteria -> sun -> grass -> mouse
A habitat is:
Everything that surrounds and affects a living thing.
The place where an organism lives.
All living and non-living things that exist an interact in one place.
Two or more food chains that overlap.
An environment is:
Everything that surrounds and affects a living thing.
All living and nonliving things that exist and interact in one place.
The place where an organism lives.
Two or more food chains that overlap.
A food web is:
Two or more food chains that overlap.
An organisms that eats other living organisms to get energy.
The path of food energy in an ecosystem as one living thing eats another.
An organism that breaks down the remains of dead organisms.
A producer is:
An organism that eats other living things to get energy.
Any organism that makes its own food.
The place where an organism lives.
Two or more food chains that overlap.
A consumer is:
Two or more food chains that overlap.
Any organism that makes its own food.
An organism that eats other living organisms to get energy.
The place where an organism lives.
Predators are animals that eat mainly plants.
True
False
Which one is a good example of a prey?
Coyote
Lion
Iberian Linx
Rabbit
What type of animal is a scavenger?
It's an animal that eat plants.
It's a carnivore animal like lions
It's an animal that eat other dead animals.
It's an animal that produces its own food
