Food Chain Pyramid

In this food pyramid, which level has the greatest amount of energy?

• Producers

• Primary Consumers

• Secondary Consumers

• Tertiary Consumers

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What happens to the energy that is not passed on to the next level?

• 80-90 percent is used by each member of the chain for life processes

• 80-90 percent may be lost to heat or waste products

• 80-90 percent may be eaten 

• A and B both

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Which organism in this food chain is a producer?

• Fish

• Grass

• Grasshopper

• Hawk

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How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?

• 1%

• 10%

• 50%

• 100%

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each level of the food chain is called a ________ level.

• Food-eating

• Trophic

• Sunlight

• Energy

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What happens to the other 90% of energy when it is passed up the food chain?

• it is found in the dirt

• it is used for metabolic processes or given off to the environment as heat

• it us used for swimming

• it is used to make a Krabby Patty

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In this energy pyramid, what is the proper name for living things above the producer level?

• decomposers

• consumers

• producers

• omnivores

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In the energy pyramid below, which one has the least amount of energy available?

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Top Predator

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Why are producers found at the base of the pyramid?

• They create all of the energy and therefore have the most energy of all of the levels

• There are more plants than animals. 

• They begin the flow of energy in an ecosystem.

• All of these answers are correct. 

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If there is 1000 Kcal available at the producers level, how much energy is available in the secondary consumers level?

• 100 Kcal

• 10 Kcal

• 1 Kcal

• 1000 Kcal

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