Food Chain and
Food Web Science
Board Game
Question 1
What is the name for an
organism that makes its own
food by using energy from the
sun?
Question 2
What is the name of the
process that producers use to
make food?
Question 3
What is the main difference between a
producer and a consumer?
Question 4
What is the name for an organism that
cannot make its own food, and
therefore depends on other living things
for food?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Question 5
Which of the following do plants gain from
sunlight?
Carbon dioxide
Energy
Sugar
water
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
Question 6
Which of the following are producers?
Sunflowers
Cows
Bees
Grass
Hawks
Worms
Trees
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
Question 7
Which of the following are consumers?
Bears
Ants
Shrubs
Pine trees
Hummingbirds
Moss
Danelions
A.
B.
C.
Question 8
Which statement is true in a food chain?
Energy flows from consumers to producers.
Energy flows from producers to consumers.
Energy flows directly from the sun to
consumers.
Question 9
What is the name of the diagram used to
show how a single chain of different
organisms depend on one another for
food?
Question 10
In a food chain, the energy from
producers originates with what?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Question 11
Which of the following is a name for the living
things that eat the plants in a food chain?
Primary consumer
Secondary consumer
Tertiary consumer
Primary producer
Secondary producer
Tertiary producer
Question 12
Which of the following do herbivores eat?
A. Consumers only
B. Consumers and producers
C. Producers only
D. Carnivores only
E. Herbivores and carnivores
Question 13
Which of the following animals are herbivores?
A. Grasshoppers
B. Elephants
C. Lions
D. Eagles
E. Snakes
F. Rabbits
G. Zebras
Question 14
Which of the following do carnivores eat?
A. Producers only
B. Consumers and producers
C. Consumers only
Question 15
What is another name for the carnivores that
eat the herbivores in the food chain?
A. Primary consumer
B. Secondary consumer
C. Tertiary consumer
D. Primary producer
E. Secondary producer
F. Tertiary producer
Question 16
Which of the following animals are only carnivores?
A. Tigers
B. Bees
C. Jaguars
D. Owls
E. Horses
F. Ants
G. Wolves
Question 17
What is another name for the carnivores that eat
the carnivores that eat the herbivores in a food
chain?
A. Primary consumer
B. Secondary consumer
C. Tertiary consumer
D. Primary producer
E. Secondary producer
F. Tertiary producer
Question 18
What is the name for the animals that
eat both consumers and producers?
Question 19
Which of the following animals are omnivores?
A. Deer
B. Caterpillars
C. Cheetahs
D. Bears
E. Pigs
F. Lions
G. Humans
Question 20
Place the following into the correct sequence
within a food chain using arrows:
Snake
Sun
Eagle
Mouse
grass
Question 21
What is a name for all animals that hunt
other animals for food?
Question 22
What is a name for the animals that
predators hunt and eat?
Question 23
True or false?
An animal cannot be both predator and
prey?
Question 24
What does it mean to be a top predator
in a food chain?
Question 25
What is the word for a collection of
living and nonliving things in an
environment?
Question 26
Would the population of foxes in an
ecosystem increase or decrease at first if
most of the rabbits became sick and died?
Question 27
Suppose that hawks are being shot down by
hunters in an area. What will likely happen
to the population of snakes in that area at
first?
Question 28
Suppose that due to the deaths of many of
its predators, the mouse population in an
area increases. What will that do to the
amount of producers in the area?
Question 29
Would the population of rabbits in an area
increase or decrease if the foxes were
being killed by hunters?
Question 30
True or false? An eagle is a mouses
predator and a mouse is an eagles prey.