Energy Flow in the Environment

Energy Flow in the Environment

Multiple Choice

What is the ultimate source of energy for most organisms?

• The Sun

• The Earth

• Plants

• Producers

Multiple Choice

What are the products of photosynthesis?

• water and carbon dioxide
• oxygen and glucose
• oxygen and carbon dioxide
• oxygen and water

Multiple Choice

What are the products of aerobic respiration?

• Glucose and oxygen
• Carbon dioxide and water
• Lactic acid
• Carbon monoxide

Multiple Choice

Which terms best describe autotrophs?

• Plants; producers
• Animals; producers
• Plants; consumers
• Animals; consumers

Multiple Choice

Heterotrophs can eat

• plants

• meat

• plants and meat

• sunlight energy

Multiple Choice

Heterotrophs are also known as...

• producers

• consumers

Multiple Choice

What is the first trophic level?

• Producers

• Primary Consumers

• Secondary Consumers

• Decomposers

Multiple Select

What do primary consumers eat? Check all that apply.

• Plants

• Detritus

• Meat

• Sunlight

Multiple Choice

_______________eat only meat while _____________eat plants and animals.

• Omnivores, carnivores

• Carnivores, omnivores

Multiple Choice

What trophic level are scavengers?

• Producers

• Primary Consumers

• Secondary Consumers

• Tertiary Consumers

Multiple Choice

Organisms, like bacteria, insects and worms, that break down waste are called ___

• carnivore

• herbivores

• decomposers

Multiple Choice

What is a food chain?

• The flow of energy from one thing to another

• The way animals eat each other

• The way the sun makes everything

• How the plants grow

Multiple Choice

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment
• population

Multiple Choice

What do the arrows indicate in a food web?

• What eats what
• Where the energy is being transferred
• How the animals are related