Energy Pyramids

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What is this called? Options: Food Web, Food Chain, Abiotic Factors

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Food Chain

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What is this called? Options: Food Web, Food Chain, Abiotic Factors

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Food Web

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What makes an energy pyramid different than a food web or chain?

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It shows the amount of energy in each trophic level.

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A pyramid shape is used to show the amount of available energy at each trophic level because...

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energy decreases as you go up the food chain, just like the pyramid shape gets smaller as you go up.

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About how much percent of energy is passed on from one organism to the next on an energy pyramid?

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10 percent of all energy gets passed

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If only 10% of an organism's energy is available for the next trophic level, what happens with the other 90% of the energy?

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It is used for life processes or lost as body heat.

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What is a trophic level?

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Each level represented within a food chain or web.

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In this energy pyramid, what is the proper name for ANY ORGANISM ABOVE THE PRODUCER LEVEL?

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consumers

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Why are producers found at the base of the pyramid?

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They create all of the energy and therefore have the most energy of all of the trophic 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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What is the ultimate ORIGINAL source of energy for living things? Options: Sugar, Sun, Moon, Carbon Dioxide

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Sun