Standard Grade Science
Energy and food chains
Click on the box that contains the correct answer
All the energy for living things comes from
- the soil
- the atmosphere
- the Sun
- the seas
What kind of living things can use the Sun's energy to make food?
- Animals only
- Both green plants and animals
- Green plants only
Which box shows the producer in the food chain given below?
Leaf => Earthworm => Vole => Owl
- Leaf
- Earthworm
- Vole
- Owl
Which box shows a predator of the vole the food chain given below?
Leaf => Earthworm => Vole => Owl
- Leaf
- Earthworm
- Owl
What word is used to describe an animal that is killed and eaten by other animals?
- Producer
- Predator
- Consumer
- Prey
Consumers is the name given to
- The animal at the very end of the food chain.
- Any animal which eats plants or other animals
- The green plant at the start of a food chain.
- An animal that eats plants only
In a food chain
- energy is lost at each step in the chain.
- energy is only lost in the first step in the chain
- no energy is lost at any step in the chain
- energy increases as it passes along the chain.
Producers are
- animals which eat green plants only
- animals which eat other animals
- animals which are eaten by other animals
- green plants which make their own food
Which box shows a food chain that can be made from the following organisms.
Fox Oak leaf Shrew Caterpillar
- Oak leaf => Caterpillar => Shrew => Fox
- Fox => Shrew => Caterpillar => Oak leaf
- Oak leaf => Shrew => Caterpillar => Fox
- Fox => Caterpillar => Shrew => Oak leaf
Which box shows a prey of the vole the food chain given below
Leaf => Earthworm => Vole => Owl
- Leaf
- Earthworm
- Owl