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Final P.2 - Food Webs and Energy Transfer

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms.

Organismo que obtiene energía comiendo otros organismos.

a)

Consumer

b)

Producer

c)

Decomposer

d)

Detritivore

2.

Makes its own food also called Autotroph.

Hace su propio alimento también llamado autótrofo.

a)

Consumer

b)

Producer

c)

Scavenger

d)

Apex Predator

3.

What is a food chain?

¿Qué es una cadena alimentaria?

a)

The flow of energy from one thing to another

b)

The way animals eat each other

c)

The way the sun makes everything

d)

How the plants grow

4.

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

¿Qué representan las flechas en una cadena alimenticia o red?

a)
They point to the organism that is being eaten.
b)
It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
c)
They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
d)
They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.
5.

Which of the following is a herbivore?

¿Cuál de los siguientes es un herbívoro?

a)
cricket
b)
frog
c)
hawk
d)
shrew
6.

What are the primary producers in this image?

¿Cuáles son los productores primarios en esta imagen?

a)

Carrot

b)

Grasshopper

c)

Grain

d)

Grass

e)

Rabbit

7.

What are the primary consumers in this image?

¿Cuáles son los principales consumidores en esta imagen?

a)

Owl

b)

Grasshopper

c)

Mouse

d)

Bird

e)

Rabbit

8.

The image is an example of what?

a)

Food web

b)

Food chain

c)

Energy pyramid

9.

The image is an example of what?

a)

Food web

b)

Food chain

c)

Energy pyramid

10.

The image is an example of what?

a)

Food web

b)

Food chain

c)

Energy pyramid

11.

Where is the most energy in an energy pyramid found?

a)

The base

b)

The top

c)

The middle

12.

What is a secondary consumer?

a)

A consumer that eats producers

b)

A consumer that eats the consumers that eat the producers

c)

An apex predator that eats everything

13.

Reorder the following food chain

a)

Producer

b)

Primary Consumer

c)

Secondary Consumer

d)

Tertiary Consumer

1)
2)
3)
4)
14.

Why are there less animals at the top of the energy pyramid? (Select all that apply)

a)

Energy is lost as heat

b)

Energy is gained as heat

c)

More energy available to reproduce

d)

Less energy available to reproduce

15.
What is an omnivore?
a)
An organism that only eats plants for energy
b)
An organism that eats animals for energy
c)
An organism that eats both plants and animals for energy.
16.

What is a carnivore?

a)

An organism that only eats plants for energy

b)

An organism that eats animals for energy

c)

An organism that eats both plants and animals for energy.

17.

What is an herbivore?

a)

An organism that only eats plants for energy

b)

An organism that eats animals for energy

c)

An organism that eats both plants and animals for energy.

18.

What is a consumer?

a)

Organism that makes its own energy

b)

Organism that breaks down dead organisms

c)

Organism that eats other organisms for food & energy

19.

The ___% rule states that only ____% of energy is transferred to the next trophic level.

a)

10%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

100%

20.

What are "trophic levels"?

a)

Levels in a food web/food chain

b)

Levels of land in a mountain

c)

Animal diets

21.

What are autotrophs

a)

organisms that produce their own food

b)

producers

c)

organisms that consume what they eat

d)

consumers

22.

Food chains show you what?

a)

What organisms like to do

b)

How organisms grow and reproduce

c)

how matter and energy move through ecosystems

23.

What do we call consumers that consume autotrophs (producers)?

a)

Primary Consumers

b)

Secondary Consumers

c)

Tertiary Consumers

24.

How much energy is transferred to the next trophic level?

a)

10%

b)

90%

25.

What happens to 90% of the energy in each trophic level?

a)

It turns into chemical energy

b)

It is lost as heat.

c)

It is used for metabolic processes

d)

All of the energy is used and none of it moves to another level

26.

Squirrels eat nuts, seeds and berries. They are

a)

herbivores

b)

omnivores

c)

carnivores

27.

Mice eat seeds, nuts and berries they belong in which TROPHIC level on an energy pyramid?

a)

Level 1: Producers

b)

Level 2: Primary consumers

c)

Level 3: Secondary consumers

d)

Level 4: Tertiary consumers

28.

As you go up a food chain, food web or energy pyramid, energy

a)

increases

b)

decreases

29.

What do the arrows show in a food chain?

a)

They point to the smallest animals.

b)

They point to the animal that tastes the best.

c)

They point to just the producers.

d)

They point in the direction that energy is flowing.

30.

Select any animal that is just a carnivore

31.

Select all of the organisms in the food chain from Phytoplankton to Tundra Swans

32.

Select any animal that is just an herbivore

33.

Select any animal that is just an omnivore

34.

If there was an increase in the elf owl population size there would be an ​ (a)   in the population sizes of the ​ (b)   , and the ​ red harvester ant.

Choose from the below words
decrease
mantid
increase
wood rat
grasshopper mouse
gila woodpecker
35.

Which level of the energy pyramid has the most stored energy?

a)

Producers

b)

Primary Consumer

c)

Secondary Consumer

d)

Tertiary Consumer

36.

If there's 20,000 kcal on the producer level of this trophic pyramid, how many kcal will be passed on to the primary consumers?

37.

Assuming that there's 20,000 kcal on the producer level of this trophic pyramid, how many kcal will be passed on to the quaternary consumers?

38.
Cats ONLY eat meat. They are ____.
a)
Carnivores
b)
Herbivores
c)
Omnivores
39.

How is a food web different from a food chain?

a)

Foods webs contain only producers, not consumers.

b)

Food webs do not include decomposers.

c)

Food webs contain many different,linked food chains.

d)

Food webs exist in aquatic environment;food chain exist in terrestrial environment

40.

How are primary consumers different from secondary consumers?

a)

Primary consumers eat only plants;secondary consumers eat other consumers.

b)

Primary consumers eat other consumers;secondary consumers eat only plants.

c)

primary consumers eat plants and other consumer;secondary consumers eat plants and decompose matter

d)

Primary consumers eat plants and decompose matter ;secondary consumers consumers eat plants and other consumers.

41.
A team of ecologists observed feeding patterns of several populations in the desert. The energy pyramid shown below depicts the feeding patterns the ecologist observed. Which of the following best explains the difference in the amount of available energy in the trophic levels of the desert ecosystem?
a)
There is less energy available in the producers because their tissues are less dense than those at higher trophic levels.
b)
There is more energy available in the second trophic level because less energy is needed for hunting compared to the higher trophic levels. 
c)
There is more available energy in the birds of prey because they have greater muscle mass for storing energy than organisms in lower trophic levels have. 
d)
There is less available energy in the fourth trophic level because of the loss of energy through metabolism in each of the lower trophic levels.
42.
The diagram shows the cycling of nutrients in an ecosystem. The removal of which of the following groups would cause an immediate decrease in the amount of energy flowing through the system? 
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Inorganic nutrients
43.
Which of these organisms would most likely be found at the top of an energy pyramid? 
a)
clams - a primary consumer
b)
sardines - a primary consumer
c)
sharks - a secondary consumer
d)
 kelp - a primary producer
44.
In a process called transpiration, plants get rid of excess water through pores in the leaves called stomata. This excess water is then released into the atmosphere as part of the water cycle. Which of the following terms best describes how the released water enters the atmosphere?
a)
condensation
b)
precipitation
c)
evaporation
d)
capillary action
45.
The framework of organic molecules essential to all organisms is composed mainly of carbon atoms. Which processes are involved in the cycling of carbon within an environment? 
a)
photosynthesis and respiration
b)
evaporation and condensation
c)
transcription and translation
d)
diffusion and transpiration
46.
Which of the following statements is true about natural systems? 
a)
Consumers form the bottom levels of both the energy pyramid and the biomass pyramid.
b)
Producers are at the bottom level of both the energy pyramid and the biomass pyramid.
c)
Producers are at the bottom of the energy pyramid, but at the top of the biomass pyramid.
d)
Producers are at the bottom of the energy pyramid, but at the top of the biomass pyramid.
47.

An organism that recycles nutrients through an ecosystem by consuming dead plants or animals is known as a(n)...

a)

Herbivore

b)

Apex Predator

c)

Producer

d)

Decomposer

48.
An organism that eats the secondary consumer.
a)
Primary Consumer
b)
Secondary Consumer
c)
Tertiary Consumer
d)
Consumer
49.

Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level

a)

Biomass

b)

Nutrients

c)

Biotissue

d)

Phytoplankton

50.
an animal that eats dead organisms
a)
omnivore
b)
carnivore
c)
scavenger
d)
predator