Food Chains and Food Webs Quiz

A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms and the flow of energy in an ecosystem.

An organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun, typically through photosynthesis.

An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms (or producers).

The first consumer in a food chain, feeding on the producers.

A consumer that eats primary consumers.

A consumer that eats secondary consumers.

The animal at the top of a food chain, with no natural predators.

The position of an organism in a food chain, representing its feeding level.

An animal that only eats plants.

An animal that eats other animals.

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

An animal that is hunted and killed by another animal for food.

Organisms that feed on dead organic matter, breaking it down.

A linear sequence of organisms where each organism eats the one below it, showing the flow of energy.

An organism's position in a food chain, indicating its feeding habits.

An organism that produces its own food, typically plants or algae using sunlight.

An organism that eats the producer.

An organism that eats the primary consumer.

An organism that eats the secondary consumer.

An organism that eats the tertiary consumer.

A complex network of interconnected food chains, showing multiple feeding relationships.

An organism that makes its own food.

An organism that eats other organisms for energy.

The process plants use to convert sunlight into energy to make food.

An animal that eats plants.

An animal that eats both plants and animals

A network of interconnected food chains showing the flow of energy and nutrients in an ecosystem.

A linear sequence where energy transfers from one organism to the next (e.g., grass -> rabbit -> fox).

An organism that makes its own food (e.g., plants like grass).

An animal that eats producers (e.g., rabbits eating grass).

An animal that eats primary consumers (e.g., foxes eating rabbits).

An animal that eats plants.

An animal that eats other animals.

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

A reduction in the number of individuals in a species within an ecosystem.

An increase in the number of individuals. Increased food supply.

An alteration in the flow of energy and nutrient in an ecosystem resulting from the removal of a species or change in food availability

The removal of fish from the ocean at a rate faster than they can reproduce and replenish.

Animals that eat crickets include lizards, cats, and kingfishers.

Duckweed is the producer in a river food web.

Redfin fish eat mayflies, yabbies, and worms.

Grass -> cricket -> kingfisher

Duckweed -> mayfly -> redfin -> kingfisher

Algae is a producer in a pond ecosystem.

Carp consume algae/waterweed in a pond.

Trout consume carp in a pond ecosystem.

Grasses and cacti are producers in the desert.

Grasses and cacti are producers in a desert.

Crickets consume cacti in a desert ecosystem.

Mice consume grasses in a desert food web.

Bats consume mice and crickets in the desert.

Hawks consume mice and bats in a desert ecosystem.

Tadpoles consume algae in a pond ecosystem.

Crowfish consume algae in a pond ecosystem.

Dragonfly larvae eat tadpoles and crowfish.

Blue fish eat crowfish and dragonfly larvae.

Spikefish prey on crowfish and bluefish

Herons eat all types of fish.

Leaf-eating insects feed on Eucalyptus leaves.

Sap-sucking insects eat Eucalyptus tree sap.

Starlings eat both leaf-eating and sap-sucking insects.

Goshawks prey on starlings.

Spiders in trees feed on wasps and insects.

One species (parasite) benefits, while the other (host) is harmed in an ongoing relationship.

An organism that benefits from and harms a host.

An organism that is harmed by a parasite.

A parasite that lives on the outside of its host.

A parasite that lives inside its host.

A plant parasite that connects to its host plant to obtain resources.

A common parasitic worm infecting humans through the fecal-oral route.

A parasite that lives inside its host's body.

A parasite that lives on the outside of its host's body.

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits, and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

Larvae are coughed up, swallowed, travel to the intestines, mature into adult worms, and produce eggs, restarting the cycle.

Found in mammal gut.

Feeds on host's skin and fur; can transmit disease.

External parasites affecting humans (body, head, pubic).

External parasite that lives on hosts (e.g. dogs), biting and sucking blood.

External parasites that attach to hosts and feed on blood until engorged.

A disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, transmitted primarily by mosquitos.