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Food Chains
Name: ______________________Class: ________Date: ____________Score: ____ / 10
- 1.
In a food chain, the arrow points from —
(a) The predator to the prey(b) The consumer to the producer(c) The organism being eaten to the organism eating it(d) The decomposer to the producer
- 2.
Which of the following is a producer in a food chain?
(a) Grasshopper(b) Grass(c) Frog(d) Snake
- 3.
What is the role of a decomposer in a food chain?
(a) It hunts and eats other animals(b) It makes food using sunlight(c) It breaks down dead organisms and returns nutrients to the soil(d) It competes with producers for sunlight
- 4.
In the food chain: Seaweed → Small fish → Big fish → Shark, the small fish is a —
(a) Producer(b) Primary consumer(c) Secondary consumer(d) Decomposer
- 5.
A food chain always begins with a —
(a) Consumer(b) Decomposer(c) Producer(d) Predator
- 6.
Which of the following food chains is written correctly?
(a) Caterpillar → Leaf → Bird(b) Leaf → Caterpillar → Bird(c) Bird → Caterpillar → Leaf(d) Leaf → Bird → Caterpillar
- 7.
Name the term for an animal that eats only plants.
Answer: ____________________________________
- 8.
In a food chain, energy is transferred from one organism to the next. At each stage, some energy is lost as —
(a) Light(b) Sound(c) Heat(d) Electricity
- 9.
Which organism in a food chain has the MOST energy available to it?
(a) Top predator(b) Secondary consumer(c) Primary consumer(d) Producer
- 10.
A student observes mushrooms growing on a rotting log. In terms of a food chain, the mushrooms are acting as —
(a) Producers(b) Primary consumers(c) Predators(d) Decomposers
Answer key — P6 Science: Food Chains
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- 1.(c) The organism being eaten to the organism eating it
- 2.(b) Grass
- 3.(c) It breaks down dead organisms and returns nutrients to the soil
- 4.(b) Primary consumer
- 5.(c) Producer
- 6.(b) Leaf → Caterpillar → Bird
- 7.herbivore
- 8.(c) Heat
- 9.(d) Producer
- 10.(d) Decomposers
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