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Study Jams – Food Webs
1. Which of the following do omnivores eat?
a. plants only
b. plants and meat
c. meat only
d. meat only
2. What is a food web?
a.
b.
c.
d.
a community of animals and plants that interact with their environment
a web created by a spider to trap its food
a complex network of food chains in an ecosystem
one line of different levels of consumers in an ecosystem
3. Which is a characteristic of animals that are in the same food web?
a. They eat the same foods.
b. They only eat plants.
c. The only eat meat.
d. They are all decomposers.
4. In a food web, which of these is a producer?
a. humans
b. lizards
c. spiders
d. grass
5. A cricket only eats plants. Which would a cricket be classified as on a food web?
a. an omnivore
b. a carnivore
c. an herbivore
d. a producer
6. A spider eats insects, flies, and crickets. What type of consumer is a spider?
a. an herbivore
b. a carnivore
c. an omnivore
7. What is the role of a decomposer in a food web?
a.
b.
c.
d.
It eats animals.
It produces its own food and provides other organisms with food.
It eats plants.
It breaks down dead plants and animals into minerals.
d. a decomposer