Food Web/Food Chains

All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

• Water
• Sun
• Consumers
• Oxygen

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

• Producer
• Heterotroph
• Consumer
• Decomposer

What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them. 
• They may eat more than one other organism. 
• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources. 
• They have no resources available to them.

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.
• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
• The willow tree population would decrease.
• Foxes would dies due to no food source. 

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

The fox in this food web would be considered a:

• Tertiary Consumer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

The mouse in this food web would be considered a:

• Primary Consumer
• Producer
• Tertiary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer