Energy Flow in Ecosystems Check-in

The arrows in a food web display

• Symbiotic relationships

• That nutrients move from predator, to prey

• The direction energy is moving

• Trophic levels

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

An organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of: 

• producers
• predators
• prey
• decomposers

What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

Which is a producer?

• deer
• tall grass
• lion
• worm

If a frog is the prey, what could be the predator?

• Grass
• Insect
• Snake
• Snail

What does a Primary Consumer eat?

• Tertiary Consumers
• Secondary Consumers
• Producers

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a ecosystem.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

How much energy is available to be passed on to the next trophic level in an ecosystem?

• 100%
• 10%
• 50%
• 75%