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Food Chains and Food Webs

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What captures sunlight in a plant?

a)

Chlorophyll

b)

Chloroplast

c)

Guard Cells

d)

Stoma

2.

What word describes a tree in an ecosystem?

a)

consumer

b)

decomposer

c)

herbivore

d)

producer

3.

What is the word for a plant-eating organism?

a)

carnivore

b)

herbivore

c)

scavenger

d)

decomposer

4.

What is the word for an organism that "eats plants and animals?"

a)

herbivore

b)

omnivore

c)

insectivore

d)

carnivore

5.

A meat-eater is called a...

a)

carnivore

b)

omnivore

c)

herbivore

d)

producer

6.

This organism can "make its own food" in an ecosystem

a)

decomposer

b)

producer

c)

scavenger

d)

consumer

7.

These organisms CANNOT make their own food they must eat their food...

a)

carnivore

b)

consumer

c)

herbivore

d)

all of the above

8.

How does a producer make its own food?

a)

photography

b)

chloroplast

c)

photosynthesis

d)

chlorophyll

9.

Photosynthesis can occur when a producer (plant) can trap sunlight.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

A scavenger is a carnivore that will eat dead items. Which of the following is a scavenger?

a)

vulture & hyena

b)

Beaver & wolf

c)

deer & elk

d)

mouse & fox

11.

Decomposers break down...

a)

living (biotic) organisms

b)

non-living (dead) organisms

12.

Examples of this include bacteria & fungi...

a)

scavenger

b)

omnivore

c)

herbivore

d)

decomposer

13.

Decomposers are the _______ of an ecosystem.

a)

recyclers

b)

non recyclers

c)

chloroplasts

14.

A series of events in which organisms eat another organism to obtain energy (food).

a)

food

b)

food chain

c)

photosynthesis

d)

herbivore

15.

Which one is the most realistic illustration of an ecosystem?

a)

Food chain

b)

community

c)

food web

d)

all of the above

16.

In the picture, which one is the producer?

a)

grasshopper

b)

grass

c)

snake

d)

frog

17.

Which organism is the herbivore?

a)

grasshopper

b)

frog

c)

snake

d)

eagle

18.

What organisms are carnivores in the food web?

a)

grasshopper and hawk

b)

snake and cricket

c)

shrew and grasshopper

d)

snake and shrew

19.

Which organisms are herbivores in the food web?

a)

shrew & frog

b)

snake

c)

marsh grass

d)

cricket & grasshopper

20.

If there are environmental changes in an ecosystem the organisms that live there must

a)

Migrate, eat, or die

b)

Migrate, adapt, or die

c)

Adapt, die, or hibernate

21.

The arrows in a food web represent

a)

The transfer of energy

b)

The sun's energy

c)

Which animal gets eaten

22.

If the grass population suddenly decreased what group would be affected first?

a)

herbivores

b)

omnivores

c)

carnivores

d)

decomposers