Food Chains and Food Webs

Food Chains and Food Webs

By Elizabeth Bowry

I can create and read food chains and webs and identify the producer, consumer, and decomposers.

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Why are plants called producers?

• They make carbon dioxide
• They decompose
• They make their own food
• They are omnivores

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What is the process in which plants use sunlight to create energy?

• Photography
• Pennsylvania
• Cholorophyll
• Photosynthesis

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All animals are...

• producers
• consumers
• carnivores
• omnivores

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Living things that eat other living things are called...

• Consumers
• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Animals

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What do herbivores eat?

• Only plants
• plants and animals
• only other animals
• dead organisms

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What do carnivores eat?

• only plants
• plants and animals
• only other animals
• dead organisms

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What do omnivores eat?

• only plants
• plants and animals
• only other animals
• dead organisms

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What do decomposers eat?

• only plants
• plants and animals
• only other animals
• dead organisms

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What is a food web?

• a bunch of food chains
• one path of what eats what in an ecosystem
• what spiders eat
• how plants turn sunlight into sugar 

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In this food web, the crab is an example of a...

• producer
• carnivore
• omnivore
• herbivore

• Get their energy from the sun.

• ​They produce their own energy.

Producers

• Get their energy from other organisms.

• Cannot make their own energy.

Consumer

• ​Get their energy from dead organisms.

• Release energy back into the enviornment.​

Decomposer

Food chains are the organization of communities based off of the transfer of energy from one organism to another.

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All food chains start with the sun. Producers have the greatest amount of energy.

Food Chains

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​Food webs are made up of many different food chains in an ecosystem.

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Food Webs

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Let's work, work, work, work, work on food chains and webs.

Multiple Choice

Which list tells you what a tree needs to grow and survive.

• carbon dioxide, water, sunlight

• oxygen, water, sunlight

• sunlight

• water

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What role do plants play in the flow of energy within an ecosystem?

• consumers

• decomposers

• herbivores

• producers

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Plants absorb energy from water and minerals in the ground.

• True

• False

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What is photosynthesis?

• The process plants use to convert the sun's energy into food used for growth and development.

• Plants make most of their energy during the night so that they can use it during the day.

• Plants make most of their energy by breaking down food that is produced by other organisms.

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Animals that eat both plants and animals

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

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Animals that eat other animals

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

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Animals that eat only plants

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

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Which of these is a food chain in the food web?

• grass-mouse-deer

• rabbit-snake-fox

• grass-mouse-snake

• mouse-weasel-fox

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Where does the owl in this food web get its energy?

• rabbit, grasshopper, fox

• rabbit, mice, birds

• carrots, grass

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All living things need _______ to stay alive.

• producers

• consumers

• energy

• prey

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Energy flows from the ______ to _______.

• Sun to consumers

• Predator to the prey

• Sun to producers

• Predator to the Sun

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A ______________ is an animal that hunts other animals for food.

• prey

• predator

• producer

• consumer

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__________ is an animal that is hunted for food by another animal.

• producer

• Consumer

• predator

• prey

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

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Which food chain is in the correct order?

• cat, grass, bird, snail
• bird, snail, grass, cat
• grass, snail, bird, cat
• grass, cat, bird, snail

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A diagram that shows how energy is transferred from one organism to another

• Carrying Capacity
• Producer
• Food Chain
• Balance of Nature