Consumers, Producers, and Food Webs

EATS GRASS AND LEAVES

An elephant gets the energy it needs to survive when it partakes in which of the following: drinks water from streams, warms itself in the sun, eats grass and leaves, sleeps on the ground?

GRASS SHRIMP

Based on diagram, the herring gull depends directly on all of the following organisms for food EXCEPT--blue crab, grass shrimp, diamondback terrapin, sheepshead minnow?

SUN

Energy that moves through the organisms in a food web originally comes from which of the following: Moon, Sun, water, soil?

ANIMALS THAT EAT PLANTS WOULD MOVE AWAY OR STARVE

If a fire on the grasslands were to happen, which of the following changes would likely occur in the food web there: producers would have to find a new energy source, there would be an increase in consumers, plants would be able to produce more food, animals that eat plants would move away or starve?

DEER WOULD MOVE ELSEWHERE TO FIND FOOD

If a highway were built through the middle of the prairie that destroyed most of the grass, which of the following might be the effect on other organisms: snakes would be forced to eat more mice, deer would move elsewhere to find food, mountain lions would hunt more squirrels, robins would eat a different food than squirrels?

HAWKS

If all of the squirrels were removed from the prairie food web, which animal population would most likely decrease first?

FIVE

If all the grasshoppers were removed, how many organisms would lose a source of energy?

PREYING ON SMALL FISH

In this pond food chain, the large fish gets it's energy by which of the following: absorbing sunlight, eating plants, preying on small fish, being food for hawks?

PRODUCER

Is a(n) ACORN a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

CONSUMER

Is a(n) BEAR a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

PRODUCER

Is a(n) CARROT a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

CONSUMER

Is a(n) CAT a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

CONSUMER

Is a(n) CHICKEN a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

CONSUMER

Is a(n) DEER a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

CONSUMER

Is a(n) DOG a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

PRODUCER

Is a(n) FLOWER a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

PRODUCER

Is a(n) GRASS a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

DECOMPOSER

Is a(n) MUSHROOM a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

DECOMPOSER

Is a(n) WORM a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

GRASS

Which of the following is an example of a producer: rabbit, insect, grass, bird?

USING SUNLIGHT TO MAKE FOOD

Which of the following processes best describes how plants get their energy: using sunlight to make food, absorbing it from the soil, removing the energy from water, putting gases into the air?

DAISY

Which organism in the table can make its own food?