Food Chain Reading Comprehension

What travels through a food chain or web?

• Water

• Energy

• Plants

• Animals

What is the ultimate energy source for all life on Earth?

• The Moon

• Electricity

• The Sun

• Wind

Food chains start with what type of organism?

• Autotrophs

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

What process can the first level of organism do?

• Circulation

• Digestion

• Respiration

• Photosynthesis

Define herbivore.

• An animal that eats only meat

• An organism that makes its own food

• An animal that eats plants

• An animal that eats both plants and meat

Herbivores are also called _____________.

• Primary consumers

• Tertiary consumers

• Secondary consumers

• Primary producers

What are animals called that feed on herbivores?

• Primary consumers

• Quaternary consumers

• Secondary consumers

• Tertiary consumers

Secondary consumers are eaten by larger ____________.

• Decomposers

• Predators

• Producers

• Herbivores

What is used to show the flow of energy in a food chain or web?

• Arrows

• Numbers

• Letters

• Colors

Match the following

• Heterotroph

• An organism that makes its food from light or chemicals.

• Food Web

• The sequence of who eats who in a community

• Autotroph

• An organism that eats plants only

• Herbivore

• An organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms

• Food Chain

• The network of all food chains in an ecosystem