Unit 9 - Investigating Matter and Energy in Ecosystems

True or False: As energy flows through a food chain, it decreases from producer to consumer.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the type of energy that powers food chains, webs, and energy pyramids?

• Herbivores

• Deomposers

• Radiant Energy

• Trophic levels

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What type of organisms are at trophic level one?

• Plants / Producers

• Grasshoppers / Primary Consumers

• Mice / Secondary Consumers

• Snake / Tertiary Consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Producers like phytoplankton give their energy to

• The Sun

• Producers

• Tertiary consumer

• Primary consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Pick two correct statements.

• The grasshopper gets energy from the grass

• The mouse is direct energy for the grasshopper

• The owl receives energy from eating the mouse

• The owl gets direct energy from both the grasshopper and mouse

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What trophic level allows for the production of chemical energy glucose through photosynthesis?

• TL2

• TL 1

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

How many sources of food does the hawk have?

• 11

• 5

• 3

• 4

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Radiant energy powers the process of photosynthesis.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Humans are NOT

• Top of the food chain

• Decomposers

• Omnivores

• Consumers

Pick all the cycles that we have studied in this unit about matter moving through ecosystems.

• Carbon

• Water

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3