Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheet

1. Use the food chain below to answer questions a-c.

Grass ⮴ Rabbit ⮴ Fox

a. What type of organism is the grass?

b. Which animal is a herbivore or primary consumer?

c. What would happen to the population of rabbits, if the

population of foxes increased (got bigger)?

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2. In the space below construct a food chain using the

information provided (Label the producer, primary
consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer).

a. An owl eats a snake, the snake eats a squirrel, the squirrel

ate a nut.
 b. Which animal in the food chain you created has the most
amount of available energy?
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c. Which animal in the food chain you created has the least
available energy?
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3. Use the food chain to answer the following questions a-e

a. What does the arrow mean in a food chain?

b. Name the producer in the food chain
c. Name the organism associated with the third trophic level in
the food chain.
d. Name the tertiary consumer in the food chain.
e. What is the ultimate source of energy of the food chain?
4. Use the food web below to answer questions a-f below.

a. What is the producer?

b. What are the primary consumers?
c. What are the secondary consumers?
d. What are the tertiary consumers?
e. What is the top predator?
f. Construct one food chain that you see on the food web.
5. Use the food web below to answer the following questions
a-g

a. Identify and list the organism(s) in the food web that are
producers.
b. Identify and list the organisms that are consumers.
c. What is the eagle’s trophic level in the food web above?
d. What does the deer consume for food?
e. How would a reduced snake population affect the food web?
f. What would happen if the eagle population disappeared?
g. Rats are pests and we do our best to keep their numbers low
in and around our homes. In the case of the food web above
if we were successfully able to completely eliminate the rats,
how would it affect the ecosystem of the above food web?