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Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A food chain begins when
  1. an animal eats another animal.
  2. an animal eats a green plant.
  3. a plant eats an insect.
  4. an animal eats the remains of a dead tree.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A decomposer is an organism that
  1. eats plants only.
  2. breaks down dead things.
  3. has died.
  4. eats meat only.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is the energy path that goes from producers to consumers to decomposers and describes the feeding relationships in an ecosystem?
  1. community
  2. food chain
  3. niche
  4. food web
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which statement is most true for the food web shown?
Food Web
  1. The bird, snake, and mouse are all producers.
  2. The bird, snake, and mouse are all consumers.
  3. The mushrooms and the grass are both decomposers.
  4. The mushrooms are producers, and the grass is a decomposer.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
If a squirrel was added to this diagram, it would be on the same tropic level as the
Food Web
  1. bird.
  2. snake.
  3. mouse.
  4. mushroom.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A                 consumer eats primary consumers.
  1. producer
  2. secondary
  3. decomposer
  4. tertiary
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What type of consumer eats only producers?
  1. herbivore
  2. omnivore
  3. plant
  4. carnivore
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
The movement of energy that occurs in an ecosystem can be represented as a(n)
  1. timeline.
  2. energy map.
  3. food web.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
When a plant or animal is dead, what grows on it?
  1. consumers
  2. producers
  3. decomposers
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A zebra eats grass and then is eaten by a lion. What is the predator in this situation?
  1. grass
  2. zebra
  3. lion
  4. Sun
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which series correctly describes how energy is passed among the four organisms?
  1. consumer, consumer, decomposer, producer
  2. decomposer, consumer, consumer, producer
  3. producer, consumer, consumer, decomposer
  4. consumer, decomposer, producer, consumer
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is a consumer?
  1. organism that makes its own food
  2. patterns of body color for hiding
  3. organism that must eat to get energy
  4. behavior that organisms inherit
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Carnivores obtain energy by eating
  1. plants.
  2. animals.
  3. animals and plants.
  4. the food they make.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which two animals shown below are both primary consumers?
  1. Pictograph - EaglePictograph - Snake
  2. Pictograph - SnakePictograph - Mice
  3. Pictograph - Adult ButterflyPictograph - Eagle
  4. Pictograph - MicePictograph - Adult Butterfly
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A producer does not need the Sun to survive.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
The sequence of organisms through which energy flows is a
  1. food chain.
  2. food pyramid.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A vulture is an example of a                 .
  1. predator.
  2. scavenger.
  3. carnivore.
  4. all of the above
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which animal is an herbivore?
  1. cow
  2. tiger
  3. human
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which is a decomposer?
  1. Pictograph - Mice
  2. Pictograph - Mushroom
  3. Pictograph - Snake
  4. Pictograph - Grass
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