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food webs and chains

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 2hrs 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which best describes what a food chain shows you?
a)
Energy flow through an ecosystem
b)
Food flowing through an ecosystem
c)
Consumers going into other consumers
d)
Who eats who
2.
What are plants called in a food chain?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Scavengers
3.
What are animals called in a food chain?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Plants
4.

What are the organisms that break down dead plants and animals?

a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Organisms
5.
Where does the energy start in this food chain?
a)
Plant
b)
Sun
c)
Deer
d)
Wolf
6.
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 
7.
What's the role of consumers in a food chain?
a)
Use sunlight to make food 
b)
Eat other species and keep them from overpopulating
c)

Break down dead plants and animals

d)
Add nutrients to the soil
8.
What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?
a)
Use sunlight to make food
b)
Eat other organisms to gain energy
c)
Make the food for the whole food chain
d)
Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil
9.
Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?
a)
Plant
b)
Rabbit
c)
Mouse
d)
Hawk
10.
Which type of consumer eats plants only?
a)
Herbivores
b)
Omnivores
c)
Carnivores
d)
Scavengers
11.
Which type of consumer eats meat only?
a)
Producers
b)
Herbivores
c)
Carnivores
d)
Omnivores
12.
Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?
a)
Herbivores
b)
Carnivores
c)
Omnivores
d)
Plants
13.
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.
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.
Which of the following is a producer?
a)
Maple tree
b)
Sunfish
c)
Bunny
d)
Bear
16.
Producers get their energy from the ______.
a)
water
b)
Sun
c)
eating animals
d)
eating plants
17.
Which organism is a decomposer?
a)
grass
b)
mouse
c)
mushroom
d)
caterpillar
18.
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
19.
Humans are considered...
a)
consumers
b)
decomposers
c)
producers
20.

The arrows in this diagram represent...

a)

producers eating

b)

sunlight shining on the animals

c)

the movement of energy

d)

the matter of the animals

21.

Who is the producer?

a)

lettuce

b)

greenfly

c)

ladybird

d)

thrush

22.
What is this called?
a)
Food Web
b)
Food Chain
c)
Abiotic Factors
23.

In this image, the grass is the ______________.

a)

Consumer

b)

Herbivore

c)

Carnivore

d)

Producer

24.
How many carnivores are shown in this food web?
a)
6
b)
4
c)
5
d)
3
25.

Where does the energy for all life forms come from?

a)
Earth's Core
b)
Water
c)
Plants
d)
The Sun
26.

This is an example of a

a)

food chain

b)

food web

c)

bunch of animals

d)

small to big list

27.

Which animals are at the top of the food chain in the food web?

a)

tree and grasses

b)

deer and frog

c)

snake and mountain lion

d)

hawk and mountain lion

28.

Can we also make energy

a)

True

b)

False

29.

A decomposer is the last part in a food chain before it all restarts

a)

True

b)

False

30.

What is true about the role of the eagle in the food chain?

a)

They eat birds, snakes, and mice.

b)

Nothing else with attack or eat it

c)

Eagles are the strongest animals on Earth

d)

The Apex predator

31.

What is the role of fungi, worms,and bacteria?

a)

They are decomposers

b)

We can live without them

c)

They turn decayed matter into nutrients

d)

Without them dead animals would just pile up.

32.

What do zebras eat and what eats zebras?

a)

They eat berries and are eaten by hippos

b)

They eat leaves and are eaten by tigers

c)

They eat grass and are eaten by hyenas and lions

d)

They eat bananas are eaten by ostriches

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