Trophic Levels
Vocab
Energy
Populations
Food Webs/Chains
100
How many trophic levels are there?
4
100
Which is bigger a food web or food chain?
Food Web
100
What are the products of photosynthesis?
Oxygen and Sugar
100
True or False: Communities are made up of different species
True
100
Identify a producer.
Zooplankton, Phytoplankton, Seaweed
200
What trophic level is at the top of the pyramid?
Apex Predators/Tertiary Consumers
200
True or False: Producers are also called autotrophs
True
200
Where does all the energy from an ecosystem originate?
The sun
200
What are ecosystems?
All the abiotic and biotic factors that live in the same area
200
Identify an apex predator.
Pangolin, Wild Dog, Hyena, Lion, Cheetah, Caracal, Serval, Ruppel's Vulture, Tawry Eagle
300
What trophic level is the biggest and has the most amount of energy?
Producers
300
What is a population?
A group of the same species living in the same area
300
How does solar energy get into our ecosystem?
Producers use photosynthesis to convert that energy
300
What is this a Population, Community, or Ecosystem?
Population of lions
300
What is the secondary consumer in this food chain?
Octopus
400
What trophic level eats secondary consumers?
Apex Predators/Tertiary Consumers
400
What do you call the factors that prevent a population's size from growing?
Limiting Factors
400
What do the arrows represent in a food web or chain?
Which direction the energy is flowing
400
What is it called when a population slowly increases for a long time and then rapidly increases out of no where?
Exponential Growth
400
How do zooplankton get their energy?
Photosynthesis/From the sun
500
What percentage of energy is passed down from trophic level to trophic level?
10%
500
What is carrying capacity?
The population size that an ecosystem can withstand
500
What happens to the energy of a dead organism?
Decomposers break it down and recycle it back into the ecosystem
500
Which trophic level will have the biggest populations?
Producers
500
Are there more zooplankton or sharks in this ecosystem?
Zooplankton