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Food chains Energy - Grade 3

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 2hrs 57mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the role of a producer?
a)
Use sunlight to make food
b)
Gain energy from eating other organisms
c)
Keep other species from overpopulating
d)
Breaking down dead stuff 
2.
Which type of consumer eats plants only?
a)
Herbivores
b)
Omnivores
c)
Carnivores
d)
Scavengers
3.
Which type of consumer eats meat only?
a)
Producers
b)
Herbivores
c)
Carnivores
d)
Omnivores
4.
Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?
a)
Herbivores
b)
Carnivores
c)
Omnivores
d)
Plants
5.

Which of the following is a list of producers?

a)

Maple tree, sunflower, grass

b)

Sunfish, apple tree, ferns

c)

moss, bunny, water

d)

tulips, Bears, snakes

6.
Which food chain is in the correct order?
a)
cat, grass, bird, snail
b)
bird, snail, grass, cat
c)
grass, snail, bird, cat
d)
grass, cat, bird, snail
7.
Molds, bacteria, and worms are ________.
a)
decomposers
b)
producers
c)
consumers
d)
food chains
8.
An ordered arrangement of animals and plants in which each feeds on the one below it in the chain is called:
a)
Habitat
b)
Population
c)
Food Chain
d)
Food Web
9.
What do you call an animal that hunts and eats other animals?
a)
Prey
b)
Producer
c)
Predator 
d)
Decomposer 
10.
An animal that is hunted and eaten for food is a 
a)
predator
b)
prey
c)
population
11.
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.
12.
Mushrooms break down dead and decaying wood in the forest.  Which of the following terms best describes the mushroom?
a)
Mold
b)
Algae
c)
Parasite
d)
Decomposer
13.
Producers get their energy from the ______.
a)
water
b)
Sun
c)
eating animals
d)
eating plants
14.
Which organism is a decomposer?
a)
grass
b)
mouse
c)
mushroom
d)
caterpillar
15.
What is the name of the organism at the beginning of every food chain?
a)
producers
b)
consumers
c)
herbivores
d)
carnivores
16.
Which organisms are the consumers?
a)
deer and squirrel
b)
flowers and deer
c)
deer and mushrooms
d)
squirrel and mushrooms
17.
Which organism is a producer?
a)
deer
b)
trees
c)
birds
d)
worms
18.
Green plants are _______.
a)
decomposers
b)
producers
c)
consumers
d)
food chains
19.

Which of these completes the food chain correctly?

a)

a rock

b)

a fox

c)

a plant

d)

an egg

20.

What is a food chain?

a)

a diagram with animals only

b)

stages an organism goes through as it grows

c)

the place where an organism lives

d)

the path of energy in an environment

21.

Which organism is getting energy from the mouse?

a)

cricket

b)

grass

c)

fox

d)

Sun

22.

Which of these gets energy from berries?

a)

the Sun

b)

the berries

c)

the robin

d)

the fox

23.

According to this food chain, how does the snake get energy?

a)

by eating the hawk

b)

by eating the rabbit

c)

by eating the berries

d)

by being in the Sun

24.

Which of these gets energy from a nonliving thing?

a)

the Sun

b)

the grass

c)

the mouse

d)

the fox

25.

Which of these best completes the food chain shown?

a)

a plant

b)

a fox

c)

a rock

d)

an egg

26.

Based on this food chain, how does the frog get energy?

a)

by growing into a bass fish

b)

by eating a dragonfly

c)

by sitting on water lilies

d)

by eating a bass fish

27.

What is wrong with the food chain shown?

a)

it needs more animals

b)

there is too much energy

c)

arrows are the wrong way

d)

there is no mistake

28.

What is wrong with the food chain shown?

a)

arrows are the wrong way

b)

it needs a plant

c)

it is too long

d)

there is no mistake

29.

Which of these is true about the food chain shown?

a)

The caterpillar gets energy from the bird.

b)

The caterpillar becomes a bird.

c)

The milkweed plant gets energy from animals.

d)

The bird gets energy from the caterpillar.

30.
What is a producer?
a)
an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
b)
an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
c)
an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste
d)
an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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