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Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
In an ecosystem, there are producers, herbivores, and carnivores. What group of organisms is an example of this?
  1. rabbit, squirrel, chicken
  2. grass, algae, flower
  3. human, bird, sandwich
  4. grass, rabbit, fox
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which shows energy relationships between all the species in a community and shows how food chains can connect?
  1. food web
  2. habitat
  3. niche
  4. environment
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Humans belong to the classification of
  1. carnivores.
  2. herbivores.
  3. omnivores.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Plants that obtain energy through photosynthesis are
  1. consumers.
  2. producers.
  3. decomposers.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is an animal that eats only meat?
  1. carnivore
  2. human
  3. omnivore
  4. herbivore
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
“Nature’s recyclers” are
  1. decomposers.
  2. consumers.
  3. producers.
  4. predators.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
An example of a decomposer is a
  1. mushroom.
  2. frog.
  3. grass.
  4. lion.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is the relationship between the Sun, plants, and animals in a food web?
  1. The Sun provides energy for both plants and animals in a food web.
  2. The Sun provides energy for plants to make their own food, and animals eat plants or other animals.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which statement best explains why many kinds of plants and animals can live together in an ecosystem?
  1. They all care for and protect one another.
  2. They have nothing to do with each other, so they can live together.
  3. They are all part of a food chain and depend on each other to live.
  4. They all feed on the same things, so they compete with each other for food.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A                 predator is the animal at the top of a food chain.
  1. primary
  2. secondary
  3. tertiary
  4. top
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is the correct order of the steps in this food chain?

A. Secondary consumers get energy by eating other consumers.
B. Producers use sunlight to make food.
C. After consumers die, decomposers like fungi and bacteria break down their remains into chemicals.
D. The Sun gives energy.
E. Primary consumers eat plants to stay alive.
  1. A, C, B, D, E
  2. D, B, E, A, C
  3. E, A, B, D, C
  4. C, E, A, B, D
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
I only eat plants. What am I?
  1. carnivore
  2. herbivore
  3. omnivore
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which type of consumer are people who eat a hamburger with lettuce and tomatoes?
  1. herbivore
  2. carnivore
  3. omnivore
  4. predator
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Most food chains start with carnivores.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What are organisms that cannot make their own food?
  1. producers
  2. pollutants
  3. consumers
  4. extinct
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
There are ocean food chains.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
brown seaweed -> queen conch -> Caribbean lobster -> Caribbean reef shark

The Caribbean reef shark is a carnivore. Why?
  1. It eats a consumer.
  2. It eats a producer.
  3. It is a decomposer.
  4. It eats both plants and animals.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
When an organism dies, the material that it is made up of is                                                     .
  1. converted to light energy, and it is used by plants.
  2. broken down by decomposers.
  3. converted into rock crystals and sand in the ground
  4. dissolved until it has all disappeared.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which animal is a carnivore?
  1. rabbit
  2. human
  3. tiger
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
The images below show a partial food chain.
?Pictograph - SnakePictograph - Eagle
Which organism would most likely come before the snake in the food chain?
  1. Pictograph - Grass
  2. Pictograph - Mice
  3. Pictograph - Mushroom
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