🌍 Ecosystems and Food Webs
This quiz explores how energy flows through ecosystems and the relationships between living things in food webs. **What you'll learn:** - Identify producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem - Explain how energy moves through a food chain - Understand food webs and predator-prey relationships - Recognize the role of different organisms in ecosystems
Questions in this quiz
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- Question 1
Which of the following is a producer in an ecosystem?
- Question 2
Decomposers break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil.
- Question 3
What do we call an animal that eats only plants?
- Question 4
In a food chain, which organism receives energy directly from the sun?
- Question 5
A food ___ shows how energy moves through multiple pathways in an ecosystem, while a food ___ shows a single path of energy flow.
- Question 6
Which of the following is an example of a primary consumer?
- Question 7
What would happen to a food web if all the plants suddenly disappeared?
- Question 8
A single organism can have multiple roles in different food chains within a food web.
- Question 9
Which type of organism is found at the top of most food chains and has no natural predators in its ecosystem?
- Question 10
In an ecosystem, why is the number of organisms usually smaller at higher levels of the food chain?