14 Questions
Which living things can make their own food?
Phytoplankton
What are consumers?
Living things that can't make their own food
What are decomposers?
Living things that only eat the waste or dead bodies of other creatures
Which of the following best describes the flow of energy in a food chain?
Energy flows from producers to consumers.
Why is it important for a food chain to start with a producer?
Producers are the only organisms that can produce food.
Why is there only about 10% of energy transferred from one member of the food chain to the next?
Energy is lost as work, heat, or waste.
Why is it important to protect shark populations in the ocean?
Sharks control the populations of other animals.
True or false: Sharks are the only animals in the ocean that eat other living creatures?
False
True or false: Producers in a food chain get their energy from the sunlight and nutrients in the environment?
True
True or false: Decomposers are living things that make their own food?
False
True or false: The food chain always starts with a consumer.
False
True or false: Only about 10% of the energy is transferred from one member of the food chain to the next.
True
True or false: The energy in sunlight is harnessed by consumers to make food.
False
True or false: A food web is a more realistic representation of the interactions between organisms in an ecosystem compared to a food chain.
True
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