Science · Ecosystems
Food Chains Quiz
Producers, consumers and decomposers: follow the energy from the sun through a food chain.
- 🎓 Grades 3–5
- 🧪 Science
- 📐 5-LS2-1
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Where does the energy in almost every food chain begin?
- A The sun
- B The moon
- C The soil
- D The water
What is a producer?
- A A living thing that makes its own food
- B A living thing that breaks down waste
- C An animal that eats meat
- D An animal that eats plants
Which of these is a producer?
- A Mushroom
- B Hawk
- C Grass
- D Rabbit
What do we call an animal that eats only plants?
- A Producer
- B Herbivore
- C Omnivore
- D Carnivore
What do we call an animal that eats only other animals?
- A Producer
- B Carnivore
- C Herbivore
- D Decomposer
What do we call an animal that eats plants and animals?
- A Omnivore
- B Producer
- C Carnivore
- D Herbivore
Which of these is a decomposer?
- A Snake
- B Deer
- C Mushroom
- D Oak tree
What do decomposers do?
- A Hunt other animals
- B Pollinate flowers
- C Make food from sunlight
- D Break down dead things into nutrients
In the chain grass → grasshopper → frog → snake, what does the frog eat?
- A Snake
- B Grass
- C Grasshopper
- D Sun
In the chain grass → grasshopper → frog → snake, which is the producer?
- A Grass
- B Snake
- C Frog
- D Grasshopper
What do the arrows in a food chain show?
- A How fast animals run
- B Where animals sleep
- C The direction energy moves
- D Who is the biggest
Many food chains linked together make a…
- A Habitat
- B Food pyramid only
- C Food web
- D Life cycle
Which is a herbivore?
- A Cow
- B Wolf
- C Shark
- D Eagle
Which is a carnivore?
- A Caterpillar
- B Deer
- C Rabbit
- D Lion
Which is an omnivore?
- A Rabbit
- B Cow
- C Horse
- D Bear
What would most likely happen to hawks if all the mice disappeared?
- A They would eat grass
- B They would have less food
- C Nothing would happen
- D They would grow bigger
An animal that is hunted by others is called…
- A Producer
- B Decomposer
- C Prey
- D Predator
An animal that hunts others is called…
- A Prey
- B Decomposer
- C Predator
- D Producer
Which pair is predator and prey?
- A Owl and mouse
- B Bee and flower
- C Worm and soil
- D Cow and grass
Which living things recycle nutrients back into the soil?
- A Herbivores
- B Predators
- C Decomposers
- D Producers
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