Food Chain Vocabulary Practice

What is a Consumer?

• An organism that produces its own food.

• An organism that obtains energy by feeding on plants or animals.

• A type of plant that uses sunlight to create energy.

• An animal that kills and eats other animals.

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What does an energy pyramid show?

• The number of organisms at each level of the food chain.

• If the ecosystem is going to change.

• The order of organisms feeding on each other.

• How food energy decreases as you move up the food chain because animals are using their energy.

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What is meant by equilibrium in an ecosystem?

• When the energy in an ecosystem is constantly increasing.

• When there is a sudden change in the population of organisms.

• When the population of each organism does not change much from year to year.

• When predators outnumber prey in the food chain.

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Which of the following is an example of a food chain?

• Grass → Cow → Milk → Cheese

• Sun → Solar Panel → Electricity → Light

• Grass → Rabbit → Snake → Hawk

• Water → Cloud → Rain → River

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What is a Producer?

• A plant that only consumes other organisms.

• A plant that kills and eats other animals.

• A plant that uses the energy from the Sun to produce food for Consumers.

• A plant that only eats other plants.

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What is a Predator?

• an animal that kills and eats other animals

• Bacteria

• a plant

• an animal that is killed and eaten by other animals

What is Prey?

• an animal that kills and eats other animals

• Bacteria

• a plant

• an animal that is killed and eaten by other animals

Ecosystem

• planet Earth

• a community of living things along with their natural environment.

• a continent

• an ocean

What does Population mean?

• all organisms within a defined region

• all organisms of a certain kind within a defined region

What is a Food Chain?

• it shows the organism that feeds on the organism below, and how energy is transferred

• a detailed diagram that shows the food relationships between all of the organisms in an ecosystem

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