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21 Questions

1. Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

a) Energy flow through an ecosystem b) Food flowing through an ecosystem

c) Consumers going into other consumers d) Who eats who

2. What are plants called in a food chain?

a) Producers b) Consumers

c) Decomposers d) Scavengers

3. Which is the correct food chain order?

a) Plant-->1st Consumer--> 2nd Consumer b) Plant <-- 1st Consumer <-- 2nd Consumer

c) 2nd consumer --> 1st consumer --> Plant d) 1st Consumer --> 2nd consumer --> Plant

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4. Which of these is true about this food web?

a) The Owl gets its energy from the producer. b) The Lion gets its energy only from a wild cat.
c) The Kite gets its energy from the goat. d) The Mouse is most likely to die, several
ways.

5. What is this called?

a) Food Web b) Food Chain

c) Abiotic Factors

6. Which of the following is a herbivore?

a) cricket b) frog
c) hawk d) shrew

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7. An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead

organisms, non-living material or waste

a) producer b) consumer

c) decomposer d) autotroph

8. A secondary consumer

a) eats primary consumers b) eats producers

c) eats plants

9. Which of the following illustrates the correct ordering of trophic

levels?

a) decomposers-carnivores-autotrophs- b) herbivores-autotrophs-carnivores-
herbivores decomposers

c) producers-herbivores-carnivores- d) carnivores-producers-omnivores
decomposers

10. Another name for a consumer is a

a) heterotroph b) autotroph

c) producer d) plant

11. Another name for a producer is an

a) heterotroph b) autotroph

c) herbivore d) carnivore

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12. Which organism recieves the least amount of energy from the
producer?

a) Owl b) Grasshopper

c) Lilypad d) Mouse

13. Which organism receives the least amount of energy from the
producer?

a) The squirrel b) The shrew

c) The deer d) The rabbit

14. Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of:

a) scavengers b) predators

c) prey d) decomposers

15. What does a food web represent?

a) All connections of energy flow throughout all b) The specific ways that mutualism is carried
organisms in a ecosystem. out.

c) A single pathway or energy flow between d) How carnivores get their food.
organisms.

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16. In the food web shown, which is the tertiary consumer?

a) large lizard b) snake

c) scorpion d) desert fox

17. In a food chain, the first link (where the energy begins) is
always:

a) a primary consumer b) a decomposer

c) a producer d) an omnivore

18. What are all biotic and abiotic things that interact in an area?

a) Ecosystem b) Environment

c) Plants d) Population

19. All the living things in an environment

a) Biotic factors b) Traits

c) Animals d) Natural Selection

20. All the nonliving things in an environment

a) Ecosystem b) Dead Animals

c) Genes d) Abiotic factors

21. Are passed down to future generations more often

a) Favorable Adaptations b) Evolution

c) Mutations d) Abilities

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Answer Key
1. a 7. c 13. b 19. a
2. a 8. a 14. d 20. d
3. a 9. c 15. a 21. a
4. d 10. a 16. d
5. a 11. b 17. c
6. a 12. a 18. a

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