Food Chain: Who Can Tell Me What A Food Chain Is?
Food Chain: Who Can Tell Me What A Food Chain Is?
Food Chain: Who Can Tell Me What A Food Chain Is?
Understanding Level: 1 2 3 4
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Draw:
Carnivore
organism that obtains energy by eating
animals.
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Herbivore
organism that obtains energy by eating only
plants.
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Omnivore
organism that obtains energy by eating both
plants and animals.
Understanding Level: 1 2 3 4
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Draw:
Energy Pyramid
diagram used to show how energy is
distributed in food chains of food webs.
Understanding Level: 1 2 3 4
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Producer
organism that can capture energy from sunlight
or chemicals and use it to produce food from
inorganic compounds; also called an autotroph.
Understanding Level: 1 2 3 4
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Consumer
organism that relies on other organisms for its
energy and food supply; also called a
heterotroph.
Understanding Level: 1 2 3 4
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Decomposer
organism that breaks down and obtains energy
from dead organic matter.
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Food Chain
series of steps in an ecosystem in which
organisms transfer energy by eating and being
eaten.
Understanding Level: 1 2 3 4
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Draw:
Food Web
network of complex interactions formed by the
feeding relationships among the various
organisms in an ecosystem.
Understanding Level: 1 2 3 4
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In this food chain, the spiders are –
A producers
B primary consumers
C competitors
D secondary consumers
Wolves and hawks are at the same
trophic level because they –
A both live on land
B are both large mammals
C both eat primary consumers
D have similar hunting patterns
Which organisms in this food web can be described
as both primary and secondary consumers?
A Hawks
B Weasels
C Raccoons
D Mice
Energy used by producers in a grassland
food web is provided by —–
A sunlight
B photosynthesis
C oxygen
D carbon dioxide
In this diagram
of a marine food
web, which term
describes the sea
turtle?
A Aquatic herbivores
B Autotrophic producers
C Third-level consumers
D Primary decomposers
The diagram
represents different
levels of a marine food
pyramid. Between
which two levels is the
greatest amount of
energy transferred?
A R and Q
B S and R
C T and S
D U and T
According to this food web, which of the
following are omnivores?
A Snakes
B Rabbits
C Mice
D Grasshoppers
The diagram shows a standard pyramid of
numbers that indicates the number of individual
organisms in a community. Which of the
following situations would form a pyramid
showing more consumers than producers?
A A small plot with 500 corn plants and 100 grasshoppers
B One pond with 300 producers and one snake
C An 11,000 m3 lake with 75 fish and one alligator
D One giant oak tree with 10,000 insects and 10 lizards
The diagram above is intended to show
relationships in an ecosystem. What do
the arrows represent?
A The direction of population migration
B Differences in dietary habits
C Progressively smaller organisms
D The direction of energy flow
Insecticides help humans compete with
insects for a resource. Which resource is
most likely to be preserved for humans
through the use of insecticides?
A sunlight
B water
C food
D air
In this food pyramid, which level
contains the greatest amount of energy?
A Tertiary consumers
B Secondary consumers
C Primary consumers
D Producers
Viruses differ from bacteria in that all
viruses –
A cause insect-borne diseases
B can be destroyed by antibiotics
C have rigid cell walls
D must be reproduced in living cells