Food Chains and Ecosystems Quiz for Grades 5–7 – Producers, Consumers and Decomposers
A food chains and ecosystems quiz for grades 5–7: producers, consumers and decomposers, herbivores and carnivores, food webs, energy flow and habitats. 12 questions with answers and explanations.
- Grades 5–7
- 12 questions
- About 6 min
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Questions
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- 1Single choice
In a food chain, what is a producer?
- An animal that eats plants
- An organism that makes its own food, usually a plant
- An animal that hunts other animals
- An organism that breaks down dead matter
- 2Single choice
Where does almost all the energy in a food chain originally come from?
- The soil
- Water
- The Sun
- Decomposers
- 3Single choice
What do we call an animal that eats only plants?
- Herbivore
- Carnivore
- Omnivore
- Decomposer
- 4Single choice
Grass → rabbit → fox. Which organism is the predator in this food chain?
- Grass
- Rabbit
- Sun
- Fox
- 5Multiple choiceMore than one correct answer
Which of these are decomposers? Select all that apply.
- Mushrooms (fungi)
- Bacteria
- Eagles
- Earthworms
- Sunflowers
- 6Single choice
What do arrows in a food chain show?
- Which animal is biggest
- The direction energy flows, from food to eater
- Where animals live
- Which animal is fastest
- 7Type answer
What word describes an animal, like a bear or a human, that eats both plants and animals?
Written answer:
- 8True / False
A food web is made of many food chains that are linked together.
- True
- False
- 9Single choice
If all the rabbits disappeared from a grass → rabbit → fox food chain, what would most likely happen first?
- Foxes would have less food
- The grass would disappear
- The Sun would get weaker
- Foxes would start eating grass
- 10Single choice
What is a habitat?
- A type of food
- The natural home of an organism
- A group of predators
- The way an animal moves
- 11True / False
Only a small part of the energy at one level of a food chain is passed on to the next level.
- True
- False
- 12Single choice
Which of these is a producer in an ocean food chain?
- Shark
- Seal
- Phytoplankton (tiny algae)
- Squid