Flow of Energy Honors

An organism that can make its own food is called?

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Herbivore

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A producer is a (n) ______________.

• heterotroph
• omnitroph
• autotroph
• oscartroph

All food chains begin with a ____________.

• primary consumer
• secondary consumer
• producers
• scavengers

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A consumer is a __________.

• heterotroph
• autotroph
• omnitroph
• consumotroph

A consumer gets energy by doing what?

• Making it themselves.
• Breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returning raw materials to the ecosystem.
• Soaking it up from the ground.
• Feeding on other organisms.

A food web consists of?

• Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• Amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another.
• Many types of insects that are stuck.

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Does energy cycle or flow through an ecosystem?

• Cycle

• Flow

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant

• Rabbit

• Mouse

• Hawk

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What is a trophic level?

• Each level represented within a food chain or web.
• Levels of ecosystems that the world is divided into.
• Different levels of nutrients present within an organism.
• The levels of sunlight an autotroph needs to survive. 

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An energy pyramid represents what?

• How much sunlight is available for the ecosystem to use. 
• How much energy a particular organism needs. 
• How much energy is needed to build a pyramid. 
• The amount of energy available to the next 'feeder' in a food web.

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