Food Chain

What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:

• Primary Consumers
• Producers
• Decomposers
• Tertiary Consumers

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

This is an example of a ___________.

• food web

• food table

• food chain

• food chart

What do the arrows in a food chain and food web show?

• what each organism eats

• the flow of energy

• what organism dies before another organism

• what organism is a consumer and what organism is a decomposer

Choose all of the herbivores in the food web.

• lion

• goat

• rabbit

• snake

• mouse

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a _______________.

• carnivore

• herbivore

• decomposer

• consumer

An organism that transforms energy from the sun and uses carbon dioxide and water to make food is called a(n) _________________________________.

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• herbivore

Which type of consumer eats plants only?

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

• insectivore

What do you call an animal that hunts and eats other animals?

• predator

• prey

• herbivore

• producer