Food Chains - Quiz
Name:_____________________________________ Date:___________
Choose the best response to the question asked by circling the letter.
1. What is a food chain?
A A process that starts with ingredients and ends with cooked food
B A long chain made of food
C How animals depend on plants and animals for their food and
survival
D A pyramid recommending what to eat daily
2. Which part of a food chain is affected by one animal becoming extinct?
F The whole food chain is
affected
G Only animals at the top of the food chain are affected
H Only plants and animals at the bottom of the food chain are
affected
J Only plants are affected
3. What part do humans play in food chains?
A Producers
B Consumers
C Prey
D Humans are not part of food chains
4. Which is an example of a consumer eating another consumer?
F A rabbit eating grass
G A deer eating flowers
H A squirrel eating nuts
J A hedgehog eating a spider
A producer uses energy from the Sun to make food.
5. Which of these is NOT a producer?
A A caterpillar
B A rose
C An oak tree
D Some grass
A consumer gets its food by eating other organisms.
6. Which of these is NOT a consumer?
F A holly bush
G A cat
H A hedgehog
J An eagle
7. What do you always find at the start of a food chain or web?
A An insect
B A bird of prey
C A green plant
D A human
8. Why do food chains and food webs start with green plants?
F Because plants absorb the sun’s energy to make their own
food
G Because most green plants are tasty
H Because most green plants eat other plants
J Because there are fewer plants than there are animals
9. What do you call an animal that hunts and eats other animals?
A Decomposer
B Prey
C Producer
D Predator
Leaves
wood mouse
badger
10. Which animal is the prey in this food chain?
F Badger
G Wood mouse
H leaves
J Neither animal
Adapted from:
http://happynsmartkids.blogspot.com/2008/05/quiz-food-chains.html