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4th Grade LTT-Food Chain/Finals test

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 26mins

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? 
*Remember Humans are on the top of all food chains because we do not get hunted. 
a)
Grass
b)
Grasshopper
c)
Mouse
d)
Owl
6.
What do Herbivores eat? 
a)
Plants ONLY 
b)
Animals ONLY
c)
Plants AND Animals
7.

What do plants need to make their own food?

a)

Sun, Water, and Animals

b)

Sun, Coke, and Soil

c)

Sun, Water, and Soil

d)

Nothing at all

8.

An example of a predator:

a)

shark

b)

mouse

c)

rabbit

9.

An example of prey:

a)

lion

b)

mouse

c)

shark

10.
Where does the energy start in this food chain?
a)
Plant
b)
Sun
c)
Deer
d)
Wolf
11.

What is a decomposer?

a)
b)
c)
d)
12.
What are animals called in a food chain?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Plants
13.
What are plants called in a food chain?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Scavengers
14.
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 
15.
Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?
a)
Plant
b)
Rabbit
c)
Mouse
d)
Hawk
16.
Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?
a)
Herbivores
b)
Carnivores
c)
Omnivores
d)
Plants
17.
True/False
Food webs show you everything an animal eats. Food chains show you one thing.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
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.
19.
All organisms need _____ to survive.
a)
Environment
b)
energy
c)
sun
d)
plants
20.
An ______ is an independent living thing.
a)
consumer
b)
producer
c)
organism
d)
herbivore
21.
_________ cannot make their own food, so they need to consume (eat) plants or animals.
a)
consumers
b)
producers
c)
decomposers
22.
The  ____________ provides all the initial energy to plants.
a)
sun
b)
moon
c)
environment
d)
water
23.
____ make their own food through photosynthesis. 
a)
consumer
b)
decomposer
c)
producer
24.
What does a food chain contain? Choose ALL correct answers.
a)
consumer
b)
producer
c)
decomposer
d)
all of the above
25.
__________ eat decaying matter, dead plants and animals and in the process they break them down. 
a)
consumer
b)
producer
c)
decomposer
26.
There are _____ consumer groups.
a)
2
b)
4
c)
1
d)
3
27.
what consumer group do YOU fit in?
a)
herbivore
b)
carnivore
c)
omnivore
28.
What is a daisy considered?
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
29.
what is bacteria or fungi considered?
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
30.
what is a human considered?
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
31.
what is grass considered?
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
32.
what is a lion considered?
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
33.
Producers get their energy from the ______.
a)
water
b)
Sun
c)
eating animals
d)
eating plants
34.
Which type of consumer eats meat only?
a)
Producers
b)
Herbivores
c)
Carnivores
d)
Omnivores
35.
The fox in this food web would be considered a:
a)
Tertiary Consumer
b)
Producer
c)
Secondary Consumer
d)
Primary Consumer
36.

The process by which plants turn sunlight into food is know as ___________.

a)

Photosynthesis

b)

Solar Energy

c)

Energy

d)

Biomass

37.

Carnivores that eat other Carnivores are also know as ____________.

a)

Primary Consumers

b)

Consumers

c)

Secondary Consumers

d)

Tertiary Consumers

38.

Carnivores are also know as ____________.

a)

Primary Consumers

b)

Consumers

c)

Secondary Consumers

d)

Tertiary Consumers

39.

Decomposers are also know as ____________.

a)

Primary Consumers

b)

Consumers

c)

Detrivores

d)

Tertiary Consumers

40.

What is a food chain?

a)

A chain of things linked together

b)

A diagram showing how energy is transferred from one organism to another

c)

A diagram showing what organisms like to eat

d)

A chain of predators and preys