Food Chain 7th

What can you infer from the fact that the disappearance of just one species can disrupt an entire food chain?

• Every food chain depends entirely on a single species

• Food chains are extremely fragile

• Food chains can regenerate on their own

• Food chains would not exist without humans

Plants are called producers because they can produce their own:

• music

• food

• air

• water

Who is the producer in this food chain?

• Grass

• Grasshopper

• Mouse

• Owl

Who does the grasshopper get energy from?

• Grass

• Grasshopper

• Mouse

• Owl

What does a Primary Consumer eat?

• Tertiary Consumers

• Secondary Consumers

• Producers

• top predators

What do the arrows show in a food chain picture?

• They always point to the smallest animals.
• They point to the animal that tastes the best.
• They always point to the producers.
• They point in the direction that energy is flowing.

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5. If a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a bird eats the caterpillar, and then a hawk eats the bird, which role is the bird in this food chain?

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

Producers are:

• animals

• rocks

• plants

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A food chain is:

• an animal that eats only plants.

• a diagram that shows how energy moves from one organism to another. (Grass>Mouse>Owl)

• An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

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A living thing that needs to eat other living things for food:

• consumer

• producer

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