Food Webs and Ecology Pyramids

How would you classify plants?

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Primary Consumer

• Primary Producer

Which of the following is a food chain in the food web?

• Rabbit, mountain lion, fox

• Grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk

• Grass, caterpillar, robin, mountain lion

• Tree, deer, mountain lion, fox

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How do most producers make their own food?

• Using light energy to make carbohydrates

• Using chemical energy to make carbohydrates

• Changing water into carbon dioxide

• Breaking down remains of organisms.

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Which of the following do some scientists believe to be the top of the food chain as ultimately, every tropic level is consumed by them?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Apex Predators

• Decomposers

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Which of the following is defined as a consumer that must get its food from a different source than itself?

• Producer

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Homotroph

Food chains and webs typically start with which kind of organism?

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

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What is the purpose of a decomposer?

• To break down dead materials and waste from consumers

• Eat living organisms

• Perform photosynthesis to make carbohydrates

• Make carbohydrates using chemical energy.

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A food web is a single linear path showing the flow of energy from one organism to another. It is not an interconnected relationship diagram of organisms in a community.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Match the following:

• Owl

• Apex Predator

• Plant

• Herbivore

• Bird

• Producer/Autotroph

• Grasshopper

• Secondary Consumer

• Snake

• Tertiary Consumer

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Which of the following would be the Apex Predator?

• Hammerhead Shark

• Octopus

• Phytoplankton

• Orca

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