Fast and Curious: Cycles and Energy Flow

What does every food chain start with? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!)

• producers
• primary energy source like the sun

• consumer
• decomposers

A ​ ​ (a)   is an organism that can make its own food using the energy from the sun, while other organisms that feed off of other organisms for energy are ​ (b)  

• autotroph/producer
• heterotrophs/consumers

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

A diagram that shows MANY DIFFERENT connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat

• food web

• food chain

• food pyramid

• energy pyramid

The rabbit, which eats grass, in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

Which one is not a consumer?

• anemone

• bear

• shark

• oak tree

What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community?

• energy path
• food web
• trophic level
• food pyramid

A graphic illustration that shows each trophic level and the amount of useable energy contained within.

• Food chain
• Food web
• Energy Pyramid
• All of these

As you move upward, from level to level, in an energy pyramid, energy _____.

• increases because energy gets stored

• decreases because energy gets used

• stays the same

• increases exponentially