Food Webs Review

What do food webs map?

• They map the flow of energy transfer

• They map how to get from one animal to another

• They do not map anything

Why are food webs and energy pyramids better than food chains?

• Because food webs are shaped like a spider's web

• Because food chains only show a single pathway of energy

Where the the greatest energy found in a food web or energy pyramid?

• At the top

• At the bottom

Why is the greatest energy located at the bottom?

Which order should a food web be organized?

• Apex/tertiary consumers, secondary consumers, primary consumers, producers and decomposers

• Producers and decomposers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, Apex/tertiary consumers

• Primary consumers, secondary consumers, producers and decomposers, apex/tertiary consumers

• Producers and decomposers, secondary consumers, primary consumers, Apex/tertiary consumers

Why are plants called "producers?"

Why are things like worms, fungi, and bacteria called "decomposers?"

Check all of the following that are types of consumers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Scavengers

• Producers

What is special about the deep ocean's food web?

• There is no sunlight, so no plants

• Microbes survive from chemosynthesis

• Microbes become the producers in this ecosystem

• All of the above

What would happen to life on earth if there were no decomposers?

• Producers would not have enough nutrients to grow

• Primary consumers would not have enough food from plants

• All consumers would suffer from food shortage

• All of the above