APES - Energy Transfer

Which process is used by most producers to turn sunlight into food energy?

• photosynthesis

• cellular respiration

• transpiration

• evaporation

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Maggots get their energy by breaking down dead and decaying animals. What are maggots?

• Autotrophs

• Producers

• Decomposers

• Heterotrophs

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The diagram shows a basic food chain.

Which is the primary consumer?

• Rabbit

• Grass

• Snake

• Hawk

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The diagram shows a food web.

What would most likely happen to the food web if the amount of grass drastically decreased?

• Only the rabbit would be affected.

• The mouse and grasshopper would be affected.

• The grasshopper, mouse, and shrew would be affected.

• The entire food web would be affected.

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Approximately ___% of the available energy is passed from organisms at one trophic level to organisms at the next trophic level.  

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The organisms in a food chain are listed in order of trophic level from left to right.

Based on the food chain, if a hawk acquires 50 calories of energy, how much energy did the grasshopper get from the plant?

• 500 calories

• 5,000 calories

• 50,000 calories

• 500,000 calories

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Organisms that relies on other organisms for food; consumer

• herbivore
• decomposer
• heterotroph
• species

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.
• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
• The willow tree population would decrease.
• Foxes would dies due to no food source. 

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All the organisms on earth get their energy directly or indirectly from?

• Oxygen
• Water 
• Nitrogen
• The Sun

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Consider the following food chain:

Algae > Mayfly > Minnow > Trout

In a polluted ecosystem, which organism would likely have the HIGHEST level of toxic chemicals in its body?

• Algae

• Mayfly

• Minnow

• Trout

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