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Food chains, webs and pyramids

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a food chain?

a)

A food chain shows how each animal gets its food.

b)

A food chain is a necklace animals wear.

c)

A food chain is a row of animals.

2.

What is a Carnivore?

a)

Animals that get their food from eating other animals.

b)

Animals that get their food from plants.

c)

Animals that get their food from plants and animals.

3.

What is a Herbivore

a)

Animals that get their food from plants and other animals.

b)

Animals that get their food from other animals.

c)

Animals that get their food from plants.

4.

What is an Omnivore?

a)

An animal which gets its food from plants.

b)

An animal which gets its food from other animals and plants.

c)

An animal which gets it food from other animals.

5.

How is a food web different from a food chain?

a)

Food webs contain only producers, not consumers

b)

Food webs do not include decomposers

c)

Food webs contain many different, linked food chains

d)

Food webs exist only in aquatic environments

6.

Through what process do producers make their own food?

a)

Parthenogenesis

b)

Photosynthesis

c)

Meiosis

d)

Mitosis

7.

How are primary consumers different from secondary consumers?

a)

Primary consumers eat only plants; secondary consumers eat other consumers

b)

Primary consumers eat other consumers; secondary consumers eat only plants

c)

Primary consumers eat plants and other consumers; secondary consumers eat plants and decompose matter

d)

Primary consumers eat plants and decompose matter; secondary consumers eat plants and other consumers

8.

Who are the primary consumers in this food web?  

a)

The lizard and the Hawk

b)

The Grasshopper and the Mouse

c)

The rabbit and the Hawk

d)

The lizard and the snake

9.
In a food web and a food chain, you show arrows to demonstrate how the ___________ transfers from one organism to the other.  
a)
Food
b)
Animals
c)
Energy
d)
Producers
10.
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
d)
an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food
11.
What are animals called in a food chain?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Plants
12.
What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Organisms
13.
How much of the energy in each level of a ecological pyramid gets lost as heat or used by the organism so that it cannot be passed on to the next trophic level?
a)
80%
b)
90%
c)
10%
d)
20%
14.
The diagram represents a pyramid of energy in an ecosystem.  Which level would most likely contain organisms that do photosynthesis?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
15.
The relationship between ALL the organisms in a community showing who eats whom is called a ___________________________.
a)
Food Web
b)
Food Chain
c)
Abiotic Factors
d)
Biotic Factors
16.

Why are there generally a maximum of five trophic levels?

a)

It's far easier to draw a pyramid that way.

b)

Because energy is lost at each level, there isn't enough energy left to support any more consumers.

c)

Generally a top predator is so fierce it has no predators and therefore can rule the top trophic level without fear.

d)

There simply is not a word beyond quaternary.

e)

BTW the word after quaternary is quinary (always read all the options in multiple choice questions)

17.

What is biomass?

a)

the total dry weight of organisms in an ecosystem

b)

the total weight of organisms in an ecosystem

c)

the total dry weight of producers in an ecosystem

d)

the total weight of animals in an ecosystem

18.
What percentage of energy is passed on to each tropic level?
a)
10%
b)
50%
c)
90%
d)
100%
19.

Which organism do the owl and the weasel compete for in the food web?

a)

Hawk

b)

Spider

c)

Grasshopper

d)

Shrew

20.

This pyramid is known as a ...

a)

An ecological pyramid

b)

A pyramid of energy

c)

A pyramid of biomass

d)

A pyramid of numbers