Food Chains/Webs

How is a food web different from a food chain?

• A food web is for insects whereas a food chain is for mammals.

• A food web combines many different food chains.

• A food web is for water ecosystems whereas a food chain is for land ecosystems.

• A food web shows the process through which the sun produces energy.

What do the arrows in a food chain diagram represent?

• the movement of organisms from one place to another

• the flow of energy from one organism to the next

• the location in which each organism lives in an ecosystem

• the increase in the number of organisms

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Which food chain correctly shows one way the human body gets the energy it needs to repair itself?

• Sun → chicken→ eggs→ seeds→ human

• human → Sun → seeds→ chicken→ egg

• human → eggs→ seeds→ chicken→ Sun

• Sun → seeds→ chicken→ eggs→ human

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A cat is a meat-eating animal. It takes several energy transfers to give the cat the energy the cat needs in order to live. What is the original source of the energy that transfers through the food web to a meat-eating animal such as a cat?

• meat

• plants

• the Sun

• Earth

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Identify if the following items would describe energy, matter, or both in an ecosystem. (Air)

• Matter

• Energy

• Both

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Identify if the following items would describe energy, matter, or both in an ecosystem. (Sunlight)

• Matter

• Energy

• Both

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Identify if the following items would describe energy, matter, or both in an ecosystem. (Food)

• Matter

• Energy

• Both

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Identify if the following items would describe energy, matter, or both in an ecosystem. (Water)

• Matter

• Energy

• Both

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Which example describes a relationship between a predator and its prey?

• Fleas live on a dog and feed on the dog’s blood.

• A clownfish hides within a sea anemone.

• Barnacles hitch a ride on the bodies of whales.

• A hawk hunts and eats a mouse.

Which of the following organisms are producers? Shrub (bush), rabbits, squirrels, hawk, deer, fungi

• shrub

• rabbits

• squirrel

• hawk

• dear

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