Food Chains & Food Webs

E.O. 4 Review

1. What does every food chain begin with?

A. Producer B. Consumer C. Decomposer

A. Producer
Plants are on the bottom of the food chain. They get their energy from the sun to produce their own food.

2. A community is
A. A way to show how living things get their food. B. An animal that is killed and eaten by another animal. C. All the population of animals that live in an area.

A. All the population of animals that live in an area. Think about everything you know about a community from your research in Social Studies.

3. Which of the following are examples of decomposers?

A. Earth worms and fungi B. Horses and cows C. Dogs and cats

A. Earth worms and fungi

4. What are camouflage and mimicry?

A. Parasites B. Adaptations C. Nutrients

A. Adaptations

5. What do you call the study of living and non living things and their interactions?
A. Paleontology B. Ecology C. Geology

A. Ecology

6. When will a species become endangered?

A. When very few of its kind are left B. Most of its predators become extinct C. Its habitat becomes an ecosystem

A. When very few of its kind are left

7. Why does an energy pyramid get smaller from the bottom to the top?
A. The bottom has very little energy. B. The largest animals are at the bottom. C. The energy is used up at each level.

A. The energy is used up at each level.

8. Why are decomposers an important part of a food chain?

A. They put nutrients back into the soil. B. They have long life spans. C. They never become extinct.

A. They put nutrients back into the soil.

9. What do you call an animal that gets its energy from only producers?
A. A carnivore B. A primary consumer C. A secondary consumer

A. A primary consumer

10. What would happen if a certain animal species were to die off in a food chain? What would happen to the others in that chain? A. The other animals would start to eat plants. B. The other animals would start to die off. C. The other animals would start to move to the ocean.

B. The other animals would start to die off.

11. What does an ecologist do?

A. They are scientists who study fossils. B. They are scientists who study the relationships between living and nonliving things. C. They are scientists who study rocks.

B. They are scientists who study the relationships between living and nonliving things.