Food Chain

1. Rabbits eat grass and other plants to survive, but they do not eat animals. What kind of animal are rabbits?

Decomposers

Carnivores

Producers

Herbivores

2. Which food chain correctly describes the flow of energy in an ecosystem?

Grass-->cow-->human

Caterpillar-->leaf-->human

Cow-->grass-->human

Leaf-->bird-->caterpillar

3. In what order do a hawk, grass, and rabbit form a food chain in a meadow?

Hawk-->grass-->rabbit

Grass-->hawk-->rabbit

Rabbit-->grass-->hawk

Grass-->rabbit-->hawk

4. How do decomposers help other organisms in an ecosystem?

They are food for consumers.

Through photosynthesis they can make their own food.

They return nutrients back to the soil.

They eat plants.

5. Which of the following lists only consumers?

Hawks, lizards, chipmunks

Acorns, squirrels, rabbits

Grass, chipmunks, eagles

Mice, squirrels, grass