Food Chains

What does a food chain show us?

• How plants make their own food.

• How energy is passed from one living thing to another.

• How animals make their own food.

In the food chain pictured, the source of energy for the water plant is ______.

• Sun

• Water Plant

• Mayfly

• Trout

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant

• Rabbit

• Mouse

• Hawk

____ make their own food through photosynthesis.

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Producers

_________ cannot make their own food, so they need to consume (eat) plants or animals.

• consumers

• producers

Why is the insect a consumer?

• It is eaten by a mouse.
• It can make its own food.
• It eats the plant.

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Which type of consumer eats plants only?

• Herbivores
• Omnivores
• Carnivores
• Scavengers

Which type of consumer eats meat only?

• Producers
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores

Which type of consumer eats meat and plants?

• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Plants

What is a flower considered?

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer