Food chain and food web

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1. What is a food chain?
a. Who eats whom in an ecosystem
b. How closely related organisms are
c. The adaptations the organisms have
d. Where organisms live on earth

2. The food chain shows the flow of

a. Animals
b. Energy
c. Oxygen
d. Water

3. what type of organism is always found at the bottom of a food chain.

a. Predator
b. Consumer
c. Decomposer
d. Producer

4. what do we call the organism at the very top of a food chain?

a. Herbivore
b. Predator
c. Ceiling species
d. Primary producer

5. Drag and drop these organisms into their correct positions in the
food chain:
a.
Fox    Rabbit    Grass   
Grass   → Rabbit   → Fox   

Seaweed    Shark     Fish    

b.   Seaweed   → fish  → Shark  

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 6. In the food web below
Select ALL correct options

i.  Identi fy what is
eaten by the magpie
a. Kookaburra b. Worm C. Possum d. Mouse e. Ferret f. Leaf

ii.  Identify what is eaten by the ferret.

a. Kookaburra b. Worm C. Possum d. Mouse e. Ferret f. Leaf

iii. Identify what is eaten by the worm

a. Kookaburra b. Worm C. Possum d. Mouse e. Ferret f. Leaf

7. Classify the organisms in the food web below as producers, primary

consumers, secondary consumers and tertiary consumers.

a. Producers- Corn,
Flowering plant,
Lavender
b. Primary
consumers-
Butterfly,
Grasshopper
c. Secondary
consumers-
Dragonfly, Frog,
Rat

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 d. Tertiary consumers- Dragonfly, Frog, Rat

8. A rabbit eats some grass to gain its energy. Explain where this energy
originated from, and what processes it went through to be in a useable
form for the rabbit to carry out cellular functions.

9. Draw and complete the food web using the information provided
below.
A scientist was studying a pond ecosystem and observed the following:
• Water snails, beetles and tadpoles were observed eating algae.
• Dragonflies were eating the beetles.
• Small insects, worms and small fish were seen eating water plants.
• Frogs and turtles were eating small insects and beetles.
• Turtles were also eating tadpoles and water snails.
• Platypus were consuming dragonflies and frogs.