Food Webs & Energy Pyramids

What do the arrows in a food web represent?

• mass

• energy flow

• matter

• organisms

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What happens as you move higher in the energy pyramid?

• more organisms

• fewer organisms

• number of organisms does not change

• organisms die

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The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

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Which level will contain plants?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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In the food web pictured here, flies provide energy for...

• Dragonflies, Turtles, & Frogs

• Slugs & Fish

• Water Weeds & Algae

• Snakes, Frogs, & Kingfishers

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If there is 1000 Kcal available in the producers in trophic level 1, how much energy is available in the herbivores in trophic level 2?

• 10 Kcal
• 1 Kcal
• 100 Kcal
• 1000 Kcal

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A food pyramid represent the relative amount of energy in trophic levels. Which of the following correctly shows a food pyramid?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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What are all the terms that can be used to describe the Orca whale? Check all that apply!

• Producer/Autotroph

• Consumer/Heterotroph

• Carnivore

• Top predator

• Primary Consumer

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If a primary consumers have 650 kcals of energy available to them in the producers they eat, how many kcals of energy make it into the primary consumer trophic level?

• 6.5

• 65000

• 650

• 65

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An owl eats a rat that lived in an ecosystem where there was 2,800 kcals of energy in the insect population that the rat consumed. How many kcals would transfer to the trophic level the owl is in?

• 28

• 280

• 2,800

• 28,000

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