Trophic Pyramids

a producer always

• eats other producers

• gets energy from the sun

• is a herbivore

• is a plant

True or False. In this energy pyramid, the consumers on each level only get about 10 percent of energy that the trophic level before it has stored.

• True

• False

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A pyramid shape is used to show the amount of available energy at each trophic level because... 

• energy decreases as you go up the food chain, just like the pyramid shape gets smaller as you go up. 

• energy increases up the food chain just like the pyramid shape gets smaller as you go up. 

• energy amounts are the same at each trophic level

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In this energy pyramid, which organisms have the most energy available?

• Producers

• Carnivores

• Herbivores

• Top Predator

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Why are producers found at the base of the pyramid?

• They create all of the energy and therefore have the most energy of all of the trophic levels

• There are more plants than animals. 

• They begin the flow of energy in an ecosystem.

• All of these answers are correct. 

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In the energy pyramid below, which organism has the least amount of energy available?

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Top Predator

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If there is 1000 Kcal available in the producers in trophic level 1, how much energy is available in the herbivores in trophic level 2?

• 10 Kcal

• 1 Kcal

• 100 Kcal

• 1000 Kcal

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In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?

• 10%

• 20%

• 80%

• 90%

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If these organisms were arranged in a food pyramid, which organism would have the least amount of total energy available?

• coyote

• insect

• lizard

• shrub

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The diagram represents a pyramid of energy in an ecosystem.  Which level would most likely contain members of the plant kingdom?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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