Trophic Levels
Scavengers
Decomposers
Energy Pyramid
Agriculture
100
What is the first trophic level?
What is consumers.
100
What is the exact definition of a scavenger?
What is an animal that eats the meat of dead animals.
100
What is the exact definition of a decomposer?
What is organisms that live by breaking apart once living matter into simpler parts.
100
How much energy is available for use after the next level.
What is 10%
100
How many kilocalories are in a quantity of corn?
What is 30,000 kilocalories.
200
What is the organism that directly feeds off a producer such as plants?
What is a primary consumer.
200
What is a way a scavenger hunts food?
What is waiting for predators to finish their meal.
200
What is Earth's most important decomposer?
What is bacteria.
200
What is an energy pyramid?
What is it shows the availability of energy of each trophic level in an ecosystem.
200
How many kilocalories would be available if that same quantity of corn is eaten by a cow? (30,000kc -> ____)
What is 3,000 kilocalories.
300
In what trophic level is the hawk in?
What is third trophic level.
300
What is the part of an organism that scavengers eat?
What is the soft parts of an organism.
300
What do decomposers do?
What is breaking down old organisms and returning minerals and nturients to the soil.
300
How much energy is available at the third level consumers?
What is 0.1%
300
What is our food supplied by? (not people)
What is agriculture.
400
What would happen if there wasn't any scavengers?
What is a lot of dead bodies.
400
What would happen if there were no decomposers.
What is all life cycles would grind to a halt.
400
What are the final members of a food pyramid?
What is scavengers and decomposers.
400
How much must a pic consume to make 1kg (2.2lb) of meat?
What is 7kg (15lb) of food.
500
What is another word for organisms that make food?
What is autotrophs.
500
What is the biggest scavenger in the world?
What is the California Condor.
500
What is another example of decomposers.
What is fungi, mushrooms, bacteria, and protists.
500
How much energy is available at the secondary consumers?
What is 1%
500
How much energy would be available in 30,000 kilocalories of corn if the corn was eaten by a locust, then a bird, then a hawk, then a eagle.
What is 0.01%
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