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    3 Food Chains Questions (Printout Version)

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    This document contains questions about food chains and feeding relationships between organisms. It asks the reader to identify producers, consumers, and decomposers; place organisms in the correct trophic level; explain the difference between primary and secondary consumers; draw and label food chains from descriptions of ecological interactions; and generate their own food chains with varying numbers of trophic levels.

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    Food Chains Questions

    1. What is the function of each of the following types of organisms in a food chain?
    a. Producer

    b. Consumer

    c. Decomposer

    2. Put each of the organisms below in the correct column in the table
    Apple tree, hawk, mushroom, carrot, dragonfly, worm, bamboo, tiger,
    bacteria, daffodil, pigeon, snake, fish, sea weed, slug, grass
    Producer Consumer Decomposer

    3. Explain the difference between a primary consumer and a secondary consumer.

    4. The food chain below shows a feeding relationship in an Australian ecosystem.


    Label each organism according to its place in the food chain.
    Grass → Kangaroo → Dingo
    5. In a food chain, what do the arrows represent?

    6. Rearrange the organisms to create a food chain. Label the position of each
    organism.
    a. Mouse, seeds, owl

    b. Flower, bird, caterpillar, cat

    c. Shark, sea weed, large fish, small fish

    7. Draw food chains for the following feeding relationships and label the position of
    each organism
    a. The hawk circled overhead before swooping down on the snake. Earlier that
    day, the snake had eaten a desert rat that was feeding on the grass.

    b. A fat green caterpillar was munching on a leaf. It did not know that a
    butcher bird was perched on the branch above, ready to pick up the
    caterpillar in its hooked beak.
    c. Killer whales swim through the ocean in search of seals, which are their
    favourite food. In turn, seals search for large fish that have grown fat on
    their meals of smaller fish. Floating in the water are millions of plankton.
    These are microscopic producer organisms that provide food for small fish
    and other herbivorous animals in the ocean.

    8. Draw three of your own food chains that have


    a. A producer and two consumers

    b. A producer and four consumers

    c. A producer and three consumers

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