Web of Life: Mystery 1

1. When you go “down” the food chain by continuing to ask “What does it eat?” at what category of living things do you always end up?

• Consumers

• Predators

• Plants

• Omnivores

2. What living things in the food web are producers?

• rabbit and mouse

• hawk and snake

• wildflowers and grass

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3. Which of the following is a consumer?

• snake

• grass

• sun

• water

4. A living thing that eats only meat is called what?

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

5. A living thing that eats only plants is called what?

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

6. Which of the following is an example of a decomposer?

• lion

• rabbit

• oak tree

• fungi

7. According to the food web, what does the frog eat?

• grasshopper

• cricket

• cattail

• shrew

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8. According to the food web, a shrew is eaten by what?

• grasshopper

• cricket

• frog

• snake

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9. Where do producers get their energy?

• water

• soil

• air

• sun

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Mateo is making a book about food chains that includes caterpillars, parsley and birds. What order should the living things be listed in the boxes pictured. Pay attention to the direction of the arrows.

• parsley, caterpillars, birds

• caterpillars, birds, parsley

• birds, caterpillars, parsley

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