Understand food chains and food webs

Practice Questions

Middle School Life Science › Understand food chains and food webs

Questions
10
1

In a food chain, the animals on the highest trophic level:

2

In this food chain, which species would have the smallest number of individuals?

grass -> grasshopper -> frog -> snake -> hawk

3

The first organism in a food chain MUST be ______ ?

4

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Which of the organisms in this food chain are autotrophs?

5

Hyenas can kill small animals for food, but they also feed on dead organisms. Hyenas are both a ________?

6

What is a limitation of a food chain as a representation of energy transfer?

7

What is the role of wheat in the food chain below?

wheat -> mouse -> snake -> hawk

8

Which of these is defined as "a series of organisms through which nutrients and energy move"?

9

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Which of these organisms in the food chain receives the LEAST amount of energy from their prey?

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According to this food web, what feeds on bacteria?

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