Introduced to Food Webs and Food Chains

What is the study of the interactions among organisms and  between organisms and their environments called?

• Biology
• Ecology
• Astronomy
• Biosphere

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The direction of the flow of energy in a food web is represented by ___.

• Light bulbs
• Dotted Lines
• Arrows
• Bubbles

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Which of these is an example of an autotroph?

• Sunflower
• Krill
• Leopard
• Hummingbird

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What does every food chain start with?

• producers
• sun
• consumer
• decomposers

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

Energy increases as you move up the food pyramid (from bottom to top).

• True 
• False

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Which of the following is NOT a consumer

• grass
• dog
• shark
• fish

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A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment

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A frog eats a fly. The frog and fly are demonstrating ________.

• mutualism
• competition
• predator/prey
• parasitism

What percentage of energy is passed on to each tropic level?

• 10%
• 50%
• 90%
• 100%

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