Food Chains and Webs Quiz

1. The arrow in a food chain means:
A is eaten by
B eats
C hunts
2. In biology, an example of a producer is a:
A human
B herbivore
C green plant
3. Another name for a plant eater is:
A a second order consumer
B a herbivore
C both of the above
4. Another name for the organism that eats the herbivore is the:
A secondary consumer
B primary consumer
C producer
5. Each level in a food chain is called the:
A consumer level
B trophic level
C production level
6. A consumer that eats already dead animals is the:
A parasite
B scavenger
C prey
7. Examples of decomposers are:
A bacteria
B fungi
C both of the above
8. An animal that eats both plant and animal matter is a:
A greedy animal
B omnivore
C herbivore
9. The organism that is never included in a food chain is the:
Aherbivore
Bproducer
Cdecomposer
10. A network of interrelated food chains is:
Aa food chain
Ban ecosystem
Ca food web
11. An organism at the end of a food chain is a:
Aproducer
Bconsumer
Cdecomposer
12. The size of organisms along a food chain tends to:
Aincrease
Bdecrease
Cremain constant
13. Food chains are of a limited length because:
Aproducers require an animal food source
Bmatter and energy are lost at each trophic level as waste and heat respectively
Cmatter increases at each trophic level due to global temperature rises
14. What is the difference between phytoplankton and zooplankton?
AZooplankton = plants e.g. sea grass; Phytoplankton = animals e.g. whales
BPhytoplankton = plants e.g. seaweed; Zooplankton = animals e.g. jellyfish
CThere is no difference
15. An example of a food chain in the ocean is:
AAlgae - Seal - Killer Krill
BAlgae - Krill - Whale
CSeal - Polar Bear - Innuit
 
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