Grade 5Sciencequiz16 questions

Food chains

Grade 5: producers and consumers, predators and prey, food webs, decomposers.

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Questions

  1. What do we call living things that make their own food using sunlight?

    • Consumers
    • Decomposers
    • Predators
    • Producers
    Show answerProducers

  2. Which of these is a producer?

    • A grass plant
    • A hawk
    • A mushroom
    • A rabbit
    Show answerA grass plant

  3. An animal that eats only plants is called a what?

    • Carnivore
    • Herbivore
    • Omnivore
    • Producer
    Show answerHerbivore

  4. Consumers cannot make their own food. (True or false?)

    Show answerTrue

  5. In a food chain, what does the arrow show?

    • The direction animals walk
    • The direction energy flows
    • Who is stronger
    • Who lives longer
    Show answerThe direction energy flows

  6. An owl catches a mouse. What is the mouse called?

    • Decomposer
    • Predator
    • Prey
    • Producer
    Show answerPrey

  7. What name do we give an animal that hunts and eats other animals? (Answer out loud)

    Show answerA predator

  8. In grass → grasshopper → frog → snake, what is the grasshopper?

    • Decomposer
    • Primary consumer
    • Producer
    • Secondary consumer
    Show answerPrimary consumer

  9. An animal can be both a predator and prey in the same food web. (True or false?)

    Show answerTrue

  10. What is a food web?

    • A chain with only plants
    • A list of foods people eat
    • A spider's home
    • Many linked food chains in one place
    Show answerMany linked food chains in one place

  11. If all the rabbits that foxes eat disappear, what might the foxes do? (Answer out loud)

    Show answerEat other food, or go hungry

  12. Why is a food web a better picture of nature than one single food chain?

    • Every animal eats only one food
    • Most animals eat more than one kind of food
    • Plants are not included
    • Predators never eat prey
    Show answerMost animals eat more than one kind of food

  13. Which living thing is a decomposer?

    • A deer
    • A grass plant
    • A mushroom
    • An eagle
    Show answerA mushroom

  14. Decomposers are plants that make food from sunlight. (True or false?)

    Show answerFalse

  15. What do decomposers return to the soil that helps plants grow? (Answer out loud)

    Show answerNutrients

  16. What would happen if there were no decomposers?

    • Animals would eat less
    • Dead matter would pile up
    • Plants would grow faster
    • Soil would get richer
    Show answerDead matter would pile up

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