Energy within Ecosystems

Which of the following is a producer?

• bear

• grass

• insect

• rabbit

Herbivores eat only...

• Plants

• animals

• plants and animals

• decomposers

What type of consumer only eats meat?

• Decomposer

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

What do you call animals that feeds on the body of dead organisms?

• Decomposers

• Carnivores

• Scavengers

• Producers

A series of events in which one organism eats another and gains energy.

• Food web

• Food chain

• Energy pyramid

Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

• Energy pyramid

• Food chain

• Food web

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another.

• Food web

• Energy pyramid

• Food chain

Which organisms on an energy pyramid have the most energy available to them?

• Producers

• Decomposers

• Top level consumers

• Primary consumers

Which organisms on an energy pyramid have the least amount of energy available to them?

• Producers

• Primary consumers

• Omnivores

• Top level consumers

If the producers on the bottom of an energy pyramid have 257,000kcal of energy available to the primary consumers?

• 2,570,000kcal

• 25,700

• 25,700kcal

• 257