Amplify Ecosystems

The figure shows an ecosystem with different plants and animals. What statement can you make about the flow of energy in this ecosystem?

• On a cloudy day, no energy will flow in this ecosystem.

• Grass can use and store energy from the sun, which eventually flows to all of the other life forms.

• Eagles eat snakes, rabbits, and frogs and are not affected by the energy in other parts of the  ecosystem.

•  If eagles are removed from the ecosystem, energy can no longer flow to any of the other  animals.

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Which statement is true about changes that could be made to this food web?

•  If producers are removed, consumers and decomposers will continue to maintain a cycle.

•  If consumers are removed, producers and decomposers will continue to maintain a cycle.

•  If decomposers are removed, producers and consumers will continue to maintain a cycle.

•  If the sun is removed, producers, consumers, and decomposers will continue to maintain  a cycle.

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Study the food web. What belongs in the box?

• apex predator, because it is at the end of the food web

•  producer, because it can use and store energy from the sun

• consumer, because it can eat the mice

• bacteria, because it can take nutrients from decomposing material

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Which of the organisms in the food web are a source of matter and energy for the decomposers?

• owls

• deer

• plants

• birds

• all of the above

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Deserts, mountains, and rivers are all examples of ________.

• vacation spots

• tundra

• ecosystems

• wetlands

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Identify the ecosystem

• Forest

• Tundra

• Freshwater

• Grassland

What type of ecosystem is this?

• wetland

• ocean

• grassland

• forest

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What type of ecosystem is this?

• tundra

• desert

• wetland

Identify the ecosystem

• Forest

• Tundra

• Freshwater

• Desert

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Label the ecosystem

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rainforest

ocean

tundra

desert