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Energy Flow

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 43mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a food chain?

a)

The flow of energy from one thing to another

b)

The way animals eat each other

c)

The way the sun makes everything

d)

How the plants grow

2.
What is a producer? 
a)
Organism that creates their own food.
b)
Organism that eat other organisms for energy
c)
Organism that eat other dead organisms
3.
What is a consumer? 
a)
Organism that creates their own food.
b)
Organism that eat other organisms for energy
c)
Organism that eat other dead organisms
4.
An animal that eats other animals is a....
a)
carnivore
b)
omnivore
c)
herbivore
d)
decomposer
5.

What animal is on the top of the food chain? 

a)

Grass

b)

Grasshopper

c)

Mouse

d)

Owl

6.
What do Herbivores eat? 
a)
Plants ONLY 
b)
Animals ONLY
c)
Plants AND Animals
7.
Where does the energy start in this food chain?
a)
Plant
b)
Sun
c)
Deer
d)
Wolf
8.

What is a decomposer?

a)
b)
c)
d)
9.
What are animals called in a food chain?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Plants
10.
What are plants called in a food chain?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Scavengers
11.
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 
12.
Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?
a)
Plant
b)
Rabbit
c)
Mouse
d)
Hawk
13.
Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?
a)
Herbivores
b)
Carnivores
c)
Omnivores
d)
Plants
14.
True/False
Food webs show you everything an animal eats. Food chains show you one thing.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
Which of these is true about this food web?
a)
The Owl gets its energy from the producer.
b)
The Lion gets its energy only from a wild cat.
c)
The Kite gets its energy from the goat.
d)
The Mouse is most likely to die, several ways.
16.

which one is a Producer?

a)
b)
c)
d)
17.
Use the diagram answer the question.
What is a fitting description for this diagram?
a)
A Food Chain
b)
An Ecosystem
c)
A Food Web
d)
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
18.
Use the diagram to answer the question.
The Mayfly is a food source for which 3 organisms?
a)
Frog, Dragon Fly and snake
b)
Frog, trout and dragon fly
c)
Frog, salamander and trout
d)
Frog and phytoplankton
19.
True or False. In this Food Web Pyramid the consumers on each level only get about 10 percent of energy that the plants have stored.
a)
True
b)
False
20.
About how much percent of energy is passed on from one organism to to the next on a food web pyramid. 
a)
100 percent of all energy gets passed
b)
45 percent of all energy gets passed
c)
10 percent of all energy gets passed
d)
0 percent of all energy gets passed
21.

Which of the following would be the most likely effect, if there were a sudden increase in the cricket population?

a)

There would be a decrease in the small bird population.

b)

There would be a decrease in the grass/flowers population.

c)

There would be a decrease in the mice population.

d)

There would be an increase in the grass/flowers population.

22.
A consumer that hunts is called:
a)
a producer.
b)
an omnivore.
c)
a predator.
d)
a herbivore.
23.
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.
24.
In this food chain, what will happen if the frogs become extinct?
a)
The snakes will increase.
b)
The grasshoppers will decrease.
c)
The eagles will remain the same.
d)
The grasshoppers will increase.
25.
A food chain shows the transfer of ___ from one organism to another. 
a)
matter
b)
consumers
c)
energy
d)
habitat
26.
How do producers obtain energy?
a)
They conduct photosynthesis.
b)
They consume plants.
c)
They consume primary consumers.
d)
They consume secondary consumers.
27.
A food web can be broken down into several seperate
a)
food chains
b)
food pyramids
c)
producers
d)
consumers
28.
Which represents the largest group in a food web?
a)
carnivores
b)
omnivores
c)
herbivores
d)
producers
29.

Which organism in the food web shown to the right would

contain the lowest concentration of chemical pollutants?

a)

producers

b)

primary consumers

c)

secondary consumers

d)

tertiary consumers

30.

The phenomenon by which toxins concentrate in the organisms at higher trophic levels within an ecosystem is known as...

a)

Biotoxicity

b)

Biomagnification

c)

Eutrophication

d)

Predation

31.
A wolf eats a rabbit, that just ate some berries.  What would you call the rabbit?
a)
Producer
b)
Omnivore
c)
Primary Consumer
d)
2nd order Heterotrph
32.

Consider the following food chain:

Algae > Mayfly > Minnow > Trout

In a polluted ecosystem, which organism would likely have the HIGHEST level of toxic chemicals in its body?

a)

Algae

b)

Mayfly

c)

Minnow

d)

Trout

33.

Pesticides and herbicides eventually show up in higher-level consumers (i.e. as you go up the food chain) due to

a)

biomagnification

b)

climate change

c)

habitat destruction

d)

bioaccumulation

34.

Toxin concentrations _____________ as you go up the food chain.

a)

do not change

b)

increase

c)

decrease

35.

The products of photosynthesis are...

a)

glucose and oxygen

b)

carbon dioxide and water

36.
What gas  do plants give off after conducting photosynthesis that humans/animals need in order to live?
a)
Oxygen
b)
Carbon
c)
Nitrogen
d)
Hydrogen
37.
Plants take in ________from the air as one key ingredient for photosynthesis
a)
oxygen
b)
soil
c)
carbon dioxide
d)
sugar
38.
What are the 3 key ingredients needed for photosynthesis
a)
glucose, oxygen, carbon dioxide
b)
carbon dioxide, water, glucose
c)
water, soil, sunlight
d)
sunlight, water, carbon dioxide
39.
What is the name of the sugars a plant produces after photosynthesis
a)
Glucose
b)
Sugar
c)
ATP
d)
Oxygen
40.
Which of the following is not needed as a key ingredient for photosynthesis to occur?
a)
sunlight
b)
carbon dioxide
c)
water
d)
oxygen
41.
Why do producers need humans?
a)
Producers use the oxygen humans make
b)
Producers need someone to water them
c)
Producers use the carbon dioxide humans make and turn it into oxygen
d)
Producers use the glucose humans give them
42.

___ is the process that cells use to take energy from glucose.

a)

cellular respiration

b)

photosynthesis

c)

transpiration

d)

excretion

43.

The ___ is the cell part (organelle) inside cells where cellular respiration happens.

a)

mitochondria

b)

chloroplast

c)

nucleus

d)

ribosome

44.

What two things are needed for cellular respiration to happen in a cell?

a)

glucose & oxygen

b)

water & carbon dioxide

c)

oxygen & carbon dioxide

d)

glucose & water

45.

Which of the following is the word equation for cellular respiration?

a)

glucose + oxygen ---> ATP + carbon dioxide + water

b)

carbon dioxide + water ---> ATP + glucose + oxygen

c)

glucose + water ---> ATP + carbon dioxide + oxygen

d)

glucose + carbon dioxide ---> ATP + oxygen + water

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