WorksheetsFood Web
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
__________ is an organism that only eats plants for energy.
a)
Carnivore
b)
Herbivore
c)
Omnivore
d)
Terivore
2.
An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:
a)
Autotroph
b)
Producer
c)
Consumer
d)
Mutualist
3.
What does a Secondary Consumer eat?
a)
Tertiary Consumers
b)
Primary Consumers
c)
Producers
d)
Secondary Consumers
4.
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
5.
What is a carnivore?
a)
an animal that gets energy by eating other animals
b)
An animal that gets energy by eating only plants
c)
an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals
6.
Which of the following is NOT a consumer?
a)
grass
b)
dog
c)
shark
d)
fish
7.
Which of the following is a herbivore?
a)
cricket
b)
frog
c)
hawk
d)
shrew
8.
Who is the producer?
a)
lettuce
b)
greenfly
c)
ladybird
d)
thrush
9.
A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________
a)
ecosystem
b)
food web
c)
environment
10.
Which animals are considered apex predators?
a)
Rabbit, fox and snake
b)
Fox, hawk and owl
c)
Frog, grasshopper and mouse
d)
Bird, frog and owl
11.
Using the food web. Since the scorpion ate the grasshopper that ate the cactus pears the scorpion is a (a) .
12.
Which of the following only contains organisms
that are secondary consumers in this food web?
a)
snake, mouse, rabbit
b)
frog, deer, rabbit
c)
hawk, mountain lion, cricket
d)
mountain lion, hawk, frog
13.
Which of the following organisms
could be classified as a tertiary consumer
based on the food web to the right?
a)
Frog
b)
Weasel
c)
Great horned owl
d)
Goldfinch
14.
The efficiency of energy transfer from a lower trophic level to the next highest level is roughly
a)
1%
b)
10%
c)
100%
d)
1000%
15.
In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in each level gets lost as heat or used by the organism for survival?
a)
80%
b)
90%
c)
10%
d)
20%
16.
Eat primary consumers (can be carnivores and omnivores)
a)
Tertiary Consumers
b)
Secondary Consumers
c)
Quaternary Consumers
d)
Top Predators
17.
In an energy pyramid, energy_______ as you move up the pyramid.
a)
Increases
b)
Decreases
c)
Stays the same
d)
Changes up and down
100 %
