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WorksheetsFood Chain and Food Web
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 21mins
In any food chain, the first trophic level is occupied by
Herbivores
Carnivores
Producers
Secondary consumers
Look at the diagram of the food web. The arrows means “eaten by.”
What will happen if the number of snakes goes down?
The owl will eat the grass
The number of frogs will go down
The hawk and owl will have less food
The number of mice and grasshoppers will go up.
The transfer of energy from one organism to the next in an ecosystem begins with a producer. A producer is an organism that produces its own food. A consumer is an organism in a food chain that obtains energy from producers or other consumers; consumers may be herbivores or carnivores.
Which food chain correctly describes the flow of energy in an ecosystem?
grass → grasshopper → fish → human
grasshopper → fish → human
human → fish → grasshopper
human → grasshopper → fish → grass
A food chain always begins with--
A Consumer
The Sun
A Decomposer
A Producer
The food chain is--
The movement of water from the surface to the atmosphere.
The path of food energy from one organism to another.
The ranking of organisms by size in an ecosystem.
A list of food that consumers will eat in an ecosystem.
What is most likely the first thing to result from having fewer field mice in the food chain pictured here?
The snakes would have to find another food source.
The plants that make seeds would decrease in number.
The eagles would have to fly away to a location.
The mice would eat many more kinds of seeds.
A new fish that also eats plants is introduced into a pond. What changes would occur to this pond ecosystem?
The large fish population will decrease.
The plant population will decrease.
The small fish population will increase.
The new fish population will decrease.
Interactions in an ecosystem result from the transfer of matter and energy from producers to consumers and eventually decomposers. What are the forms of energy transfer from numbers 1 through 4?
Chemical energy to chemical energy
Light energy to chemical energy
Chemical energy to heat energy
Heat energy to mechanical energy
The diagram shows part of an aquatic food web for a stable lake ecosystem in Connecticut. What is the source of energy for the algae?
waves
sunlight
bacteria
rotifers, water fleas and tadpoles
Suppose that a new predator of the rabbit migrated to this ecosystem. What is the most likely initial effect on the other organisms?
More competition among the mice for food
More competition among the hawks for food
Less competition among snakes for food
Less grass available for food
For the food chain shown, which of the following changes would have the most severe consequences?
a drastic decrease in rainfall, causing a drought
the poaching of predatory hawks by game hunters
the introduction of a second predator that eats field mice
a parasitic infestation that reduces the cricket population
A student examines the information in the table. The student concludes that Organism W should be placed at the base of the food web to represent the feeding relationships in the marine ecosystem. However, the student later learns that Organism W's cells do not contain chloroplasts. Based on the new information, which conclusion would be appropriate?
Another organism in the marine ecosystem is a producer.
Organism W is a secondary consumer in the marine ecosystem.
The role of Organism T in the marine ecosystem changes during its life.
This marine ecosystem does not have any producers.
A chemical pesticide was applied to an area of this ecosystem by a landowner to control the mouse population. There was a decrease in the mouse population due to the presence of this pesticide. Which one of the following would most likely occur due to this change in the ecosystem?
The amount of grass would decrease.
The snake population would increase.
The rabbit food supply would increase.
The snake food supply would increase.
The picture shows the energy flow through a meadow community. Which of the following would most likely occur to the populations within the community of organisms immediately after a wildfire burns the environment?
Hawks would increase and foxes would increase.
Hawks would decrease and foxes would increase.
Meadow plants would increase and rabbits would decrease.
Meadow plants would decrease and rabbits would decrease.
