15 questions
What is the original source of Energy in a food web?
Decomposers (Bacteria and Fungi)
Producers (Plants)
Consumers (Animals)
Sun
Which of the following gets it's energy directly from a producer?
Sun
Plants
Deer
Snake
The diagram shows a prairie food web. In the food web shown, all of the following are consumers EXCEPT –
Prairie Grass
Mountain Lion
Squirrel
Robin
Decomposers like mushrooms get energy by –
producing their own food
eating grass, fruit, and seeds
breaking down dead organisms
absorbing carbon dioxide from the air
In the food web diagram, what do the arrows represent?
Life Cycle
Metamorphosis
How food is produced by organisms
The flow of energy through an ecosystem
Green plants are producers that begin the flow of energy between organisms in a food web when they-
reproduce by generating seeds
absorb water and nutrients through the soil
release oxygen into the air
make their own food using sunlight
Mold, fungi, and some types of bacteria are classified as decomposers. What is the role of a decomposer in a food web?
break down waste and dead organisms
use sunlight and water to produce their own food
release oxygen into the atmosphere for respiration
to provide the energy animals need for food
The diagram shows a pond food web. What two organisms get their energy directly from insect larvae?
algae and minnows
sunfish and bass
minnows and sunfish
snails and snapping turtles
The diagram shows a woodlands food chain. What is the role of the tree in the food chain?
Sun → Tree → Squirrel → Hawk
make energy available directly to the Hawk
To use Sun's energy to produce food
to break down waste left by squirrels
to provide a place for the hawk to build it's nest
The prairie food web illustrated here has producers and consumers. In this food web, how many more consumers than producers are there?
2
5
7
9
The diagram shows a food web. What is the original source for all the energy in this food web?
Algae
Sun
Minnows
Insect Larvae
The diagram shows an incomplete food chain. Which of the following would best complete this food chain?
Producer
Consumer
Decomposer
Animal
The diagram illustrates a gulf food web. Which of the following organisms provides energy for more than one other organism in the food web?
Otter
Herring Gull
Blue Crab
Diamondback Terrapin
The diagram shows a prairie food web. Which organism in the food web would be classified as a producer?
Deer
Squirrel
Plant Seeds
Field Mouse
Which way does the arrow point??
Energy to Organism
Organism to Energy
North
South