Energy in the Ecosystem

Energy in the Ecosystem

By Cereese Stewart

Multiple Choice

All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

• Water
• Sun
• Consumers
• Oxygen

Multiple Choice

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

Multiple Choice

An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:

• Producer
• Heterotroph
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Multiple Choice

What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

Multiple Choice

Which is a producer?

• deer
• tall grass
• lion
• worm

Multiple Choice

What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

Multiple Choice

What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

Multiple Choice

An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts is...

• scavenger
• consumer
• decomposer
• carnivore

Multiple Choice

An animal that eats other animals is a....

• carnivore
• omnivore
• herbivore
• decomposer

Multiple Choice

In a food web, arrows point at:

• who gets energy.
• who gets eaten.

Multiple Choice

What is missing from this food chain?
Grass > Grasshopper > Bird > Snake

• Producer
• Primary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer
• Decomposer

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

Multiple Choice

__________ is an organism that eats BOTH plants and animals for energy.

• Omnivore
• Darnivore
• Carnivore
• Herbiovre

Multiple Select

Click on the image to make it larger-- Choose the living things that are producers...

• wildflowers

• rabbit

• snake

• grass

Multiple Choice

A cow eats grass found in its habitat. A cow is a

• producer

• consumer

• herbivore

Multiple Choice

If the grasshopper were to be removed completely from the food web, what organism would be most effected?

• The squirrel
• The shrew
• The deer
• The rabbit

Multiple Select

Click on the image to make it larger-- Choose all that apply: The hawk gets energy from...

• mouse

• rabbit

• wildflowers

• snake

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Click on the image to make it larger--The rabbit gets energy from the ....

• hawk

• mouse

• wildflowers

• grass

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Click on the imgae to make it larger-- Choose the herbivores in the food web....

• hawk

• mouse

• rabbit

• snake

Multiple Choice

Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them.

• They may eat more than one other organism.

• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources.

Multiple Choice

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

Multiple Choice

In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 90%

Multiple Choice

What is the bottom layer of the an energy pyramid?

• producer

• tertiary consumer

• Secondary consumer

• primary consumer

Multiple Choice

the top layer of an energy pyramid a primary consumer?

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

In the energy pyramid here, which organisms have the most energy available?

• Producers
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Top Predator

Multiple Choice

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

• Producers
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Top Predator

Multiple Choice

Which organism recieves the least amount of energy from the producer?

• Owl
• Grasshopper
• Lilypad
• Mouse

Multiple Choice

Which level will contain plants?

• A
• B
• C
• D