Food Web, Food Chain, and Energy Pyramids

What are animals called in a food chain?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Plants

What kind of living thing can make its own food?

• producer

• consumer

• predator

• herbivore

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the role of a producer?

• Use sunlight to make food

• Gain energy from eating other organisms

• Keep other species from overpopulating

• Breaking down dead stuff 

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

This diagram shows how energy flows through an eco-system. What is the first source of energy in this pyramid (aka producers)?

• sharks and large birds

• algae, plankton and seagrass

• herbivorous fish, crustaceans and sea urchins

• seals and carnivorous fish

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is this called?

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Abiotic Factors

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is this called?

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Abiotic Factors

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

• Producers

• Carnivores

• Herbivores

• Top Predator

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In the food web shown, the snail would be considered...

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer

• producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3