Tropic Levels

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste is a(an) ___________.

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

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Eat primary consumers (can be carnivores and omnivores)

• Tertiary Consumers
• Secondary Consumers
• Quaternary Consumers 
• Top Predators 

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An organism that uses an outside source of energy like the sun to create energy-rich food molecules.

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Parasite 

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The process of plants using energy from the sun to create the first trophic level is called?

• Photosynthesis
• Chemosynthesis
• Cellular Respiratation
• Primary Producers

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Click on the picture to answer the question. What is true about a food chain?

• It is just 1 path of energy.

• It is all possible energy paths.

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Organism that makes its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• predator

Organism that eats other things for food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• prey

Overlapping food chains

• food cycle

• food network

• food system

• food web

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What does a Primary Consumer eat?

• Tertiary Consumers
• Secondary Consumers
• Producers