Food Webs

What travels through a food chain or food web?

• waste

• energy

• decomposers

• trophic levels

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What is the ultimate energy for all life on Earth?

• vultures

• plants

• sunlight

• autotrophs

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The 1st organism in a food chain must always be what type of organism?

• primary consumer

• herbivore

• secondary consumer

• primary producer

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Name 2 food making processes.

• photosynthesis and chemosynthesis

• sunlight and bacteria

• trophic levels and biomes

• producers and consumers

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Define herbivore

• organism that obtains energy from sunlight

• organism that obtains energy from eating autotrophs

• organism that obtains energy from breaking down dead or decaying matter

• organism that obtains energy from eating both plants and animals

Herbivores are also called ____________________.

• primary consumers

• secondary consumers

• predators

• producers

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What are animals called that feed on herbivores?

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer

• quaternary consumer

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Secondary consumers are eaten by larger _________________________________.

• prey

• predators

• producers

• primary energy source

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What is used to indicate the flow of energy in a food chain or web?

• pyramid

• arrows

• slope

• levels

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What happens to energy as we move from step to step in a chain or web?

• it is consumed by the next trophic level

• it is lost

• it is converted into food

• it disappears

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