Energy Pyramids, Food Webs, and Food Chains

Organisms that can make their own food using the energy from the sun.

• Consumers

• Heterotrophs

• Autotrophs

• Herbivores

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Organisms that eat meat.

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Heterotrophs

• Autotrophs

Which organism in the food web pictured is a primary consumer.

• Lavender

• Dragonfly

• Rat

• Butterfly

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Which organisms in the food web are secondary consumers ?

• Butterfly

• Corn

• Rat

• Thrush

• Fruit Fly

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If the phytoplankton in the energy pyramid in the figure have 20,000 kcal of energy, how much energy does the mackerel have?

• 20.000 kcal

• 2,000 kcal

• 1,000 kcal

• 200 kcal

• 20 kcal

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Organisms that break down dead organisms and in this process return critical nutrients to the soil.

• Autotroph

• Primary Consumer

• Decomposer

• Producer

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Check the box next to all the organisms in this food web that are autotrophs.

• Grasshoppers

• Grains

• Birds

• Grasses

• Carrots

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Check the boxes next to the organisms in the food web that are tertiary consumers

• Eagle

• Wolf

• Python

• Dragonfly

• Frog

Check the boxes next to all the terms that can be used to describe the frog in the food chain in the picture.

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Herbivore

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What would happen to the frogs in this food chain if the snake population decreased due to a disease?

• The frog population would not change

• The frog population would increase.

• The frog population would decrease.

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