Food Webs and Energy Pyramid

In this food chain the _______ has the least energy avaialble for its life processes.

• omnivore or fish

• producer or aquatic plant

• carnivore or osprey

• herbivore or shrimp

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Why are producers always found at the lowest trophic level?

• Producers are larger than consumers.

• Produers are found in fewer numbers than consumers.

• Consumers are eaten by a variety of producers.

• Producers convert light energy into chemical energy

What is the ultimate source of energy in a food web?

• sunlight

• decomposers

• consumers

• producers

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In a tropical rainforest, insects feed on leaves while frogs eat the insects. At ground level, fungi digest waste material to supply their nutritional needs. What are the frogs in this ecosystem?

• parasites

• decomposers

• consumers

• producers

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If you were to place the bear into the energy pyramid, the bear would go on level _____ and have ____ amount of energy available to it.

• C, the most

• A, the greatest

• A, the least

• C, the least

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In this food chain, we could classify plants as ____________and the animals as ________.

• consumers, predators

• producers, predators

• consumers, decomposers

• producers, consumers

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____________are responsible for recylcing matter back into the food web once an organism has died.

• carnivores

• omnivores

• decomposers

• producers

The animals in the food web release ___________ into the enviornment, which plants then use for ___________.

• oxygen, respiration

• water, photosynthesis

• carbon dioxide, photosynthesis

• carbon dioxide, respiration

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Where does grass get its energy from?

• Snakes

• Earth

• Air

• Sun

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What do the arrows tell you?

• Who Eats Who

• Where the energy flows

• How cute they all are

• How many of them there are

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