Energy Pyramids, Food Webs and Food Chains

What does every food chain start with (hint: original source of energy)?

• producers
• sun
• consumer
• decomposers

An animal that hunts other animals for food is a ___________

• herbivore
• predator
• prey
• omnivore

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

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In this Food Web Pyramid Which type of consumer gets only 10% of the energy stored in plants?

• Herbivore
• Carnivore
• Omnivore
• Secondary Consumer

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What does a Secondary Consumer eat?

• Tertiary Consumers
• Primary Consumers
• Producers
• Secondary Consumers

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Energy increases as you move up the food pyramid (from bottom to top).

• True 
• False

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The grasshopper in this food web is considered a

• producer
• herbivore
• omnivore
• carnivore

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The animals in this ecosystem provide what form of matter to the producers (to be used in photosynthesis)?

• Carbon dioxide
• oxygen

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If an insecticide reduced the population of grasshoppers, what would happen to the population of shrew?

• increase
• decrease
• remain the same

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