Food Chain + Trophic Pyramid

Bears eat a variety of foods including fish, berries, other types of vegetation.  Bears would best be classified as – 

• producers
• herbivores
• carnivores
• omnivores

Snakes eat many types of small mammals including mice and rabbits as well as other lizards.  Snakes would best be classified as a - 

• producers
• herbivores
• carnivores
• omnivores

Horses eat grasses and other plants in order to gain their nutrition.  Horses would best be classified as - 

• producers
• herbivores
• carnivores
• omnivores

Which organism in this food chain is a producer?

• Fish
• Grass
• Grasshopper
• Hawk

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In this food pyramid, which level has the greatest amount of energy?

• Producers
• Primary Consumers
• Secondary Consumers
• Tertiary Consumers

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?

• 1%
• 10%
• 50%
• 100%

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What happens to the energy that is not passed on to the next level?

• 80-90 percent is used by each member of the chain for life processes
• 80-90 percent may be lost to heat or waste products
• 80-90 percent may be eaten 
• A and B both

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

each level of the food chain is called a ________ level.

• Food-eating
• Trophic
• Sunlight
• Energy

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A series of interrelated food chains in a given ecosystem is called a ______________.

• trophic level
• food pyramid
• predator-prey relationship
• food web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A producer__________________________.

• must eat other organisms for food/energy ex: shark

• Makes their own food ex: trees

• get their energy from consuming dead things