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Food Webs Grade 5

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 2hrs 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a consumer?

a)

an organism that eats another organism to get energy

b)

an organism that makes its own food

c)

an organism that eats decomposers

d)

an organism that breaks down dead organisms and returns nutrients back to the soil

2.

What is producer?

a)

an organism that eats another organism for energy

b)

an organism that makes its own food with the sun

c)

an organism that breaks down dead organisms and returns nutrients back to the soil

d)

an organism that eats a decomposer

3.

What is a decomposer

a)

an organism that eat another organism to get energy

b)

an organism that uses the suns energy to make its own food

c)

an organism that eats decomposers

d)

an organism that breaks down organisms and returns nutrients back to the soil

4.

A herbivore...

a)

eats other animals

b)

eats producers

c)

eats consumer number 2

d)

makes its food

5.

A producer uses....?.... to makes its food.

a)

another organism

b)

the sun

c)

plants

d)

the soil

6.

the main source of energy is...

a)

the water cycle

b)

the plants

c)

the sun

d)

the food web

7.

The arrows in a foodweb or foodchain represent?

a)

The transfer of food

b)

the transfer of energy

c)

the transfer of animals

d)

the transfer of plants

8.

Decomposer?

a)

mushroom

b)

grass

c)

wolf

d)

seed

9.

what is missing in this food chain?

a)

producer

b)

decomposer

c)

consumer 1

d)

consumer 2

10.

Which animal is the tertiary consumer?

a)

mouse

b)

eagle

c)

snake

d)

grasshopper

11.

What would happen if you REMOVE the mice in this ecosystem?

a)

grasshoppers would decrease in population

b)

producers would decrease

c)

snake would increase in population

d)

the eagles would die

12.

What animal is getting DIRECT energy from the mouse?

a)

eagle

b)

snake

c)

grasshopper

d)

plant

13.

Which organism is getting INDIRECT energy from the mouse?

a)

eagle

b)

snake

c)

grasshopper

d)

plant

14.

how many organisms are consumers?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

15.

How many organisms are producers?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

16.

In a food chain, what do the arrows point to?

a)

The flow of energy

b)

Animals

c)

Flowers

d)

The prey

17.

True or False

All tree's are producers

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Animals that breakdown dead organisms are called?

a)

Producers

b)

Consumers

c)

Decomposers

d)

Animals

19.

At the beginning of a food chain or web producers get their energy from what?

a)

Food

b)

Money

c)

Moon

d)

Sun

20.

This is an example of a?

a)

Food Web

b)

Food in the wild

c)

Food Chain

d)

Grasslands

21.

In this food web the mouse is a ?

a)

Producer

b)

Consumer

c)

Consumer and Carnivore

d)

Producer and Consumer

22.

A_____ links together many food chains

a)

Chains

b)

Food Web

c)

Producers, consumers, decomposers

d)

Population

23.

Flowers are a _____

a)

Pretty

b)

Carnivore's

c)

Producers

d)

Consumers

24.

A missing link in the food chain would cause that organism who eats that population to?

a)

Increase

b)

Decrease

c)

Maintain

25.

True or False

In the food web only one animals is getting energy?

a)

True

b)

False

26.
Name the producers in this food web.
a)
seagull and fish
b)
penguin and crab
c)
phytoplankton and seaweed
d)
seaweed and zooplankton
27.

An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a: (a)  

Choose from the below words
Producer
Heterotroph
Consumer
Decomposer
28.

The diagram shows a food web. What is the original source for all the energy in this food web?

a)

Algae

b)

Sun

c)

Minnows

d)

Insect Larvae

29.

Which statement correctly describes the transfer of energy in a food chain in this wetland?

a)

Energy is transferred from hawks to shrews to grasshoppers to marsh grasses.

b)

Energy is transferred from marsh grasses to crickets to hawks to frogs.

c)

Energy is transferred from grasshoppers to crickets to frogs to hawks.

d)

Energy is transferred from cattails to crickets to shrews to hawks.

30.

Based on this food web, how many organisms get their energy from grass?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

2

d)

1

31.

The diagram shows a prairie food web. In the food web shown, all of the following are consumers EXCEPT – (a)  

Choose from the below words
Prairie Grass
Mountain Lion
Squirrel
Robin
32.

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a (a)   .

Choose from the below words
producer
consumer
decomposer
prey
33.
How many carnivores are shown in this food web?
a)
6
b)
4
c)
5
d)
3
34.
Which of these keeps prey populations under control?
a)
apex predator
b)
zebra
c)
producer
d)
decomposer
35.

The diagram illustrates a gulf food web. Which of the following organisms provides energy for more than one other organism in the food web?

a)

Otter

b)

Herring Gull

c)

Blue Crab

d)

Diamondback Terrapin

36.

The prairie food web illustrated here has producers and consumers. In this food web, how many more consumers than producers are there?

a)

2

b)

5

c)

7

d)

9