Week 9- Assessment

Which consumers would receive the greatest amount of energy captured by the producers in their food chains.

• Wedge-tailed eagles

• Chuditch

• Ring-tailed opossums

• Eucalyptus trees

Which sentence best describes how energy flows through this pyramid?

• Energy is transferred down each level of the energy pyramid.

• The energy lost at each level is consumed by organisms in the top level.

• Energy is transferred from organisms in one level to those in the level above.

• The organisms at the bottom level provide energy directly to organisms in all the other levels.

Based on the chart, which food chain best models a flow of energy in this ecosystem?

• Sun--> Mosquitoes--> Shrimp--> Coyotes

• Sun--> Algae--> Shrimp--> Red drum

• Sun--> Pygmy sunfish--> Shrimp--> Wood ducks

• Sun--> Willow oaks--> Algae--> River otters

A tree is a ....

• composer

• decomposer

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is a consumer?

• Organism that makes its own energy

• Organism that breaks down dead organisms

• Organism that eats other organisms for food & energy

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-6