FOOD WEB & FOOD CHAIN

Refer to the diagram of the food web below to

answer Questions 1 to 6.

1. Which are the first order consumers in the food web

shown?
A. mouse, snake, eagle
B. grasshopper, frog, snake
C. grasshopper, small bird, rat
D. rice, grasshopper, frog, eagle
2. Which of the following represents a food chain from
the food web shown?

7. From the above food web, which represents a

food chain?
A. hawksnake rabbit bacteria
B. mouse rabbit grasshopperbacteria
C. garden vegetables mouse snake hawk
D. grasses rabbit grasshopper frog
snake
8. In the food web above, which group of
organisms are all herbivores?
A. snake, hawk, and frog
B. mouse, snake, and rabbit
C. mouse, rabbit, and grasshopper
D. vegetables, mouse, snake, and bacteria
9. Which pair of animals below shows a predatorprey relationship?
A.
rabbit and grasshopper
B.
hawk and snake
C.
hawk and rabbit
D.
rat and rabbit

3. Which of the following organisms in the food web is

the producer?
A. frog
B. snake
C. rice D. grasshopper
4. Based on the diagram, what is a food web? It is
a/an:
A. collection of plants and animals
B. complex food interrelationship among organisms
C. interrelationship of the living things and the
physical environment
D. order of food relationship that starts from the
consumer to the producers
5. Which of the following statements about the
diagram is correct?
A. Animals can live without plants.
B. The bigger an organism, the more energy it
needs.
C. The source of energy in the food web is the
plants.
D. The farther an organism is from the Source of
energy, the more energy it gets from the source.
6. Which diagram represents a food chain in the food
web?
For Items 7 9 refer to the diagram below.

10.Which organism in the food chain is a

producer?

A. Fish
B. Grass
Grasshopper

C. Hawk

D.

11.Which organism are carnivores?

A. Fish & grasshopper
C. fish & hawk
B. Grasshopper & grass
D. Fish & grass
For Item 12 to 13, study the diagram below.

12.If all of the fish are removed from this food

web, which animal populations will most likely
decrease first?
A. Turtles
C. mosquito larvae
B. Pelicans
D. dragonfly larvae
13.What is/are the first order consumers in the
food web?
A. mosquito only
C. mosquito and turtle
B. Plants and turtle
D. turtle only
14.Which of the following is a food chain?
A. Frog Locust (balang) snake rice
B. Rice Locust (balang) Frog snake
C. Rice Locust (balang) snakefrog
D. Rice Snake Locust(balang) Frog

For Item 15, refer to the chart listing the observations

about the feeding interrelationships among the
following organisms:

For Items 21-23, study the diagram below.

21.Which animal is an
omnivore?
A. Deer C. black bear
B. Owl
D.
rabbit

RICE, GRASSHOPPER, FROG, HAWK, SNAKE

Rice is eaten by grasshoppers.
Grasshoppers are eaten by frogs, snakes, and
haw
Frogs are eaten by snakes.
Snakes are eaten by hawks.
15.Which diagram represents these feeding
relationships?

22.Which animals are most likely to carry the

seeds found in berries from the parent plant to
another area?
A.
red fox, rabbit and owl
B.
black bear, bird and owl
C.
deer, black bear and rabbit
D.
red fox, black bear and rabbit
23.If fungi are added in the food web, what is its
role?
A.
Protector of plants
B.
Decomposer of dead organisms
C. Multiplier of the
number of
animals
D. Maintain the
balance of
ecosystem
For Item 24

16.What population
would decrease if all
the grasshoppers
died?
A. Owl
C.
Mouse
B. Frog
D.
Rice

17.In the diagram below, which of the following is an

omnivore?
A. Chicken
C. Eagle
B. Mouse
Snake

D.

18.Which diagram shows that big fish and man are

second order consumers in a food web?

24.Which animal is both first-order consumer and

second-order consumer?
A. cat
B. plants
C. bird D. snake
25.Which of the following processes allows plants
to use carbon from the environment?
A. Reproduction
C. transpiration
B. Fertilization
D. photosynthesis
For Items 26 and 27, refer to the diagram
below.

26.If the number of small fish decreases, what

most likely will happen to the number of
turtles?
A.
It will increase.
B.
It will decrease.
C.
It will stay the same.
D.
Snapping turtles will no longer exist.
27. A producer is a living thing that makes its own
food from sunlight. Which of the following is a
producer?
A.
Tadpoles B. fishes
C. turtles
D.
algae

19. Which of the following organisms would fit in the

boxes numbered 1, 2, and 3 in the diagram?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Corn, chicken, decomposers

Bacteria, man, decomposers
Water lily, fish, man
Rice, duck, man

20.Fungi are an important part of a terrestrial

ecosystem because they:
A. store energy
C. function as producers
B. bond oxygen to sulfur D. recycles organic matter

For Items 28
31, study the
diagram
below.
28.In what type of
environment is
the food web
found?
A. Ocean
B. Forest
C. Pond
D. Stream

29. Where does the rodent get its energy to survive?

A.
plants and insects
C. snakes and birds
B.
plants and snake D. birds and plants
30. Which of the following organisms provide energy
for more than one organism in this food web?
A.
plants, insects and rodents
B.
birds, snakes and rodents
C.
rodents, snake and birds
D.
plants, snakes and birds
31. What is the BEST interpretation for the diagram?
A.
The populations of snakes are dependent on
the number of insects.
B.
The birds are the powerful animal in the
forest.
C.
Animals depend on plants for survival.
D.
Energy is transferred from different groups of
animals to plants.
For Items 32 to 35, study
the diagram

32.Which of the following

food chains can be taken
from the food web?
A.
B.
C.
D.

rice
rice
rice
rice

plant
plant
plant
plant

chicken hawk eagle

rat chicken hawk eagle
snake eagle
fish heron

A.
B.
C.
D.

quiapo snail mosquito

grasshopper turtle frog
quiapo mosquito frog
snail duck fish

38.Which pair shows a predator prey

relationship?
A.
quiapo grasshopper C. frog
mosquito
B.
grasshopper snail
D. duck
turtle
39.If additional ducks are introduced into this
ecosystem, there will most likely be an
immediate decrease in the:
A. frog and snake population.
B. snail and fish population.
C. snake and mosquito population
D. grasshopper and frog population.
40.Turtles lay their eggs on beaches and return to
the sea. Tiny turtles hatch from the eggs and
find their way to the ocean water. This is an
example of:
A. a learned behaviour
C.
camouflage
B. an instinct
D. mimicry
For numbers 41-46

33.How many food chains are in the food web?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
34.What is one conclusion that can be made from the
food web?
A.
Animals depend on plants for food.
B.
All organisms in a food web are both eaters
and eaten.
C.
All the eaters in a food web can be eaten.
D.
The organisms in a food web are all eaters.
35.A new law says It is prohibited to hunt eagle in the
woods. Which will most likely to happen next year
in the woods?
A. Snail, plant & trees will increase.
B. Hawk, snake & heron will decrease
C. Chicken will decrease.
D. Insects will increase.

41.Which concept is best illustrated by this

diagram?
A. The exchange of CO2 and O2 in an ecosystem
B. The effect of limiting factors in the
ecosystem
C. Cycling of nutrients in a community _
D. Environmental pressures on a population

36.Based on the diagram below, which animal is badly

affected if the frog is eliminated in the food web?

42.What is the role of the bacteria in the food

chain?
A. It converts dead organisms into simpler
substance.
B. It turns animals to pieces
C. It kills living organism
D. It multiplies the animals

A. bird

B. eagle

C. worm

D. snake

For Items 37 and 39

37.Which food chain
can be found in
the diagram?

43. Which is the first order consumer?

A. Flower
C. rat
B. Grasshopper
D. dog
44.Which organisms show predator-prey
relationship?
A. Rat and dog
B. Flower and bacteria
C. Grasshopper and dog
D. Flower and rat

45.Based on the diagram above, what is the advantage

of composting wastes at home? It will:
A. increase the recyclables.
B. make the soil fertile
C. deplete the soil nutrients
D. Dry up the soil
ANSWER KEY
FOOD WEB AND FOOD CHAIN
1. C
2. C
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. C
8. C
9. B
10. B
11. C
12. B
13. C
14. B
15. D
16. B
17. A
18. D
19. A
20. D
21. C

46.What is the last stage in the life cycle of a living

organism?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Death and action of bacteria

Having babies and schooling
Death and rising to heaven
Death and reproducing

22. C
23. B
24. C
25. D
26. C
27. D
28. B
29. A
30. A
31. C
32. A
33. C
34. A
35. B
36. D
37. C
38. C
39. B
40. A
41. C
42. A
43. B
44. A
45. B
46. A