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Food Chain & Food Web

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The food chain starts with a ...

a)

Producers

b)

Consumers

c)

Decomposers

2.

Plants get the energy from ...

a)

water

b)

sugar

c)

sunlight

d)

carbon dioxide

3.

Do all plants can make their own food?

a)

Yes

b)

No

4.

Which of the following animals are categorized as herbivores? Click two correct answer.

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
5.

Which of the following animals are categorized as omnivores? Check two correct answer.

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
6.

The producers below is the producers in the land food chain, except ...

a)

grass

b)

tree

c)

corn plants

d)

seaweed

7.

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

a)

Producers

b)

Consumers

c)

Decomposers

d)

Organisms

8.

The direction of the flow of energy in a food chain is represented by ...

a)

bulbs

b)

arrow

c)

dotted lines

d)

box

9.

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

a)

Plant

b)

Rabbit

c)

Mouse

d)

Hawk

10.
A frog eats a fly. The frog and fly are demonstrating ________.
a)
mutualism
b)
competition
c)
predator/prey
d)
parasitism
11.
A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________
a)
ecosystem
b)
food web
c)
environment
12.

The food web supports which statement?

a)

Organisms are independent from one another.

b)

Each organism has its own, unique food source.

c)

Matter cannot move from one organism to

another.

d)

Matter can be recycled between organisms

and their environment.

13.

In the diagram, which organism provides nutrients for the

largest number of other organisms?

a)

Seal

b)

Herring

c)

Snapper

d)

Bluefish

14.
Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?
a)
More than one organism may eat them. 
b)
They may eat more than one other organism. 
c)
This organism gets its energy from multiple sources. 
d)
They have no resources available to them.
15.
An energy pyramid represents what?
a)
How much sunlight is available for the ecosystem to use. 
b)
How much energy a particular organism needs. 
c)
How much energy is needed to build a pyramid. 
d)
The amount of energy available to the next 'feeder' in a food web.