Food chain / Food web

Front

What are decomposers?

Back

Organisms that eat dead plants or animals.

Front

Food chains and webs typically start with which kind of organism?

Back

Producers

Front

The higher the trophic level, the less stored energy there is to be passed on.

Back

True

Front

What is a level in an energy pyramid called?

Back

Trophic

Front

What do the arrows in the ecosystem diagram represent?

Back

The direction of the energy flow.

Front

Every time energy is transferred from one organism to another, there is a loss of energy.

Back

True

Front

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web?

Back

The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.