Food Web

What would happen if you REMOVE the mice in this ecosystem?

• grasshoppers would decrease in population

• producers would decrease

• snake would increase in population

• the eagles would die

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The arrows in a foodweb or foodchain represent?

• The transfer of food

• the transfer of energy

• the transfer of animals

• the transfer of plants

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Which animal is the tertiary consumer?

• mouse

• eagle

• snake

• grasshopper

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What animal is getting DIRECT energy from the mouse?

• eagle

• snake

• grasshopper

• plant

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.

• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 

• How carnivores get their food. 

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Look at the food web of a pond ecosystem.

Which food chain shows the correct flow of energy in the pond 

of the food web?

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The table shows the foods eaten by animals in a meadow ecosystem. Place the animal names in the ecosystem boxes to create a food web of this ecosystem.

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d

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Goldfinch

Field Mouse

Rat Snake

Barred Owl

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What is a consumer in a food web?

• An organism that produces its own food

• An organism that eats other organisms

• An organism that decomposes dead matter

• An organism that absorbs sunlight

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In a food web, tertiary consumers are usually:

• Plants

• Herbivores

• Top predators

• Decomposers

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Why are plants considered the base of most food webs?

• They are the largest organisms in an ecosystem

• They consume the most energy

• They produce energy through photosynthesis, providing food for other organisms

• They are eaten by all other organisms

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