Food Webs and Pyramids

What type of organism makes its own food using energy from the sun?

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Decotroph

• Consumotroph

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What type of organism consumes other organism to get energy?

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Decotroph

• Phototroph

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Farmers spray insecticides to kill grasshoppers. Which organism will increase when the grasshopper die off?

• Corn

• Rats

• Frogs

• Snakes

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Looking at the diagram, which organism is a tertiary consumer?

• Eagle

• Rat

• Dragonfly

• Lavenders

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Looking at the diagram, which organism is a secondary consumer?

• Rat

• Eagle

• Fruit fly

• Lavender

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What do we call the variety of organisms living in a given area?

• Biodiversity

• Biosphere

• People

• Biomagnification

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If you tie multiple food chains from a given area together, what is that called?

• Food web

• Food pyramid

• Food course

• Food energy

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How much energy do consumers store from what they eat?

• 10%

• 50%

• 25%

• 100%

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What happens to all of the energy that is lost when you move up the pyramid?

• Heat given off

• Goes to other organisms

• Used by the producers

• Goes to decomposers

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If the primary producers made 50,000 kcal/m²/yr, how much energy would the tertiary consumers recieve?

• 50 kcal/m²/yr

• 5 kcal/m²/yr

• 500 kcal/m²/yr

• 5000 kcal/m²/yr

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