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Food chains and food webs
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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

In a food chain, which organism is always found at the first trophic level?

  1. A herbivore that eats plants
  2. A producer that photosynthesises
  3. A primary consumer that feeds on grass
  4. A decomposer that breaks down dead matter
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✓ Answer: B — A producer that photosynthesises
The first trophic level is always occupied by a producer, which is an organism (usually a green plant or alga) that makes its own food through photosynthesis. Herbivores and primary consumers occupy the second trophic level, and decomposers are not part of the main food chain sequence.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

A food chain shows: grass → rabbit → fox. What does the arrow in a food chain represent?

  1. The flow of energy from right to left
  2. The direction in which one organism hunts another
  3. The transfer of energy from one organism to the next
  4. The movement of organisms through a habitat
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✓ Answer: C — The transfer of energy from one organism to the next
The arrow in a food chain represents the direction in which energy is transferred, pointing from the organism being eaten to the organism eating it. It does not show hunting direction or organism movement; energy flows from prey to predator.
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Every question is written against the published CIE IGCSE Biology specification, including the exact command words (state, describe, explain, calculate, evaluate, etc.), mark allocations, and difficulty tier you'd see on a real CIE paper. Explanations are written in the style of official examiner mark schemes — they tell you what is being awarded marks and why distractors are wrong, not just whether you got it right. The bank is continually refined to match the latest syllabus updates from CIE.
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Food chains and food webs appears across multiple question types on real CIE IGCSE Biology papers — most commonly as multiple-choice questions in the objective section, structured short-answer questions in the main paper, and occasionally as part of an extended response. Kramizo's practice bank reflects that mix: 4-option MCQs, true/false statements, fill-in-the-blank key terms, multi-select questions, and ordering questions. Working through the bank gives you exposure to every question style examiners actually use.

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