Food Chain

The food chain provides an example of how energy is transferred from one organism to the next organism. What provides the energy of the food chain?

• The sun

• The water cycle

• decomposers

• bagels

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What is the function of the mushroom (decomposer) in the food chain?

• It provides energy from the sun.

• Mushrooms are herbivores so they eat whatever is around them.

• It breaks down dead plant or animal material.

• Mushrooms are carnivores so they only eat animal material.

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If the hawk were to be removed from the food chain, what consumer would increase in population?

• The grasshopper population.

• The snake population.

• The grass would grow more.

• The mushroom (decomposer) population.

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Which of the following is an example of a producer?

• Rabbit

• Insect

• Grass

• Bird

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If a fire in the grasslands were to happen, what change would likely occur in the food web there?

• Producers would have to find a new energy source.

• There would be an increase in consumers.

• Plants would be able to produce more food.

• Animals that eat plants would move away or starve.

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Which of the following processes best describes how plants get their energy? Plants get their energy from -

• Using sunlight to make food.

• Absorbing it from the soil.

• Removing the energy from water.

• Putting gases into the air.

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The diagram shows how energy flows through a prairie food web. If all the grasshoppers were removed, how many organisms would lose a source of energy?

• Four

• Five

• Six

• Seven

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An organism that uses sunlight to produce its own food for energy is a -

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Food chain

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An organism that gets energy by eating another organism is a

• Producer

• Consumer

• Food web

• Ecosystem

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All of the living and nonliving things in an area and the interactions among them are known as

• a food web

• a spot

• an ecosystem

• McDonalds

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