Crash Course Food Chains

We read some articles about how Burmese pythons are invasive in Florida. How are these pythons affecting the food web in Everglades National Park in southern Florida?

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A habitat is home to a tangle of food chains called ___

• a nutrient hub

• an energy chain

• a food web

• the carbon cycle

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The things in an ecosystem are all ___

• separate

• connected

• scattered

• unrelated

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What is distributed by spider monkeys as they travel throughout the forest?

• whole fruit

• fruit seeds 

• dried leaves

• insects

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Frogs eat ___

• bats

• insects

• spider monkeys

• strangler figs

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In every ___, the plants and animals are connected.

• ecosystem

• organization

• entanglement

• spider web

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Leopards dine on ___

• figs and spider monkeys

• sloths and strangler figs

• sloths and spider monkeys

• ants and bats

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What is a food chain?

• A sequence of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

• A group of organisms that share the same habitat

• A network of interconnected food webs

• A classification of organisms based on their diet

Which of the following organisms is typically at the top of a food chain?

• Producer

• Primary consumer

• Secondary consumer

• Apex predator

In a simple food chain, grass is eaten by a rabbit, and the rabbit is eaten by a fox. What role does the rabbit play in this food chain?

• Producer

• Primary consumer

• Secondary consumer

• Decomposer

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