Unit 10 Part 1

Front

What is the level with the fewest biomass in an ecosystem?

Back

Quaternary

Front

If there is 1000 Kcal available in the producers, how much energy is available in the herbivores?

Back

100 Kcal

Front

All food webs and food chains begin with what?

Back

Producers

Front

What type of consumer only eats meat?

Back

Carnivore

Front

In a food web diagram, what do the arrows represent?

Back

The direction of the energy flow.

Front

What is a primary consumer?

Back

An organism that eats producers (plants).

Front

Define herbivore.

Back

An animal that primarily eats plants.

Front

What is a food chain?

Back

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

Front

What is a food web?

Back

A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

Front

What is the role of producers in an ecosystem?

Back

They convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis.