4.2 Energy Flow Vocabulary Review

What percentage of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next in an ecosystem?

• 10%

• 20%

• 50%

• 100%

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What is biomass?

• The total mass of living organisms in a given area

• The energy lost as heat

• The number of species in an ecosystem

• The amount of sunlight received by plants

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What does an energy pyramid show?

• The increase of energy in an ecosystem

• The decrease of energy through trophic levels

• The number of species in an ecosystem

• The amount of sunlight received by plants

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What is a food chain?

• A complex network of interconnected food webs

• A simple, linear sequence of organisms showing who eats whom

• A diagram showing energy flow

• A list of all species in an ecosystem

What is a food web?

• A single food chain

• A complex network of interconnected food chains

• A diagram of energy flow

• A list of producers in an ecosystem

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What is a primary consumer?

• An organism that eats producers

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that eats secondary consumers

• An organism that decomposes organic material

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What is a producer?

• An organism that eats other organisms

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that decomposes organic material

• An organism that is at the top of the food chain

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What is a secondary consumer?

• An organism that eats primary consumers

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that decomposes organic material

• An organism that is at the top of the food chain

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What are trophic levels?

• Different feeding positions in a food chain or web

• The amount of sunlight received by plants

• The number of species in an ecosystem

• The energy lost as heat

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What is an autotroph?

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that eats other organisms

• An organism that decomposes organic material

• An organism that is at the top of the food chain

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