Producer/Consumer
Energy Transfer
Food Web Effects
Terms
Relationship in the ecosystem
100
Order the following labels for consumers in the order from first in the food chain to last:tertiary, primary, secondary
primary, secondary, tertiary
100
How much energy is transferred through each trophic level?
10%
100
If one population changes in a food web, what happens to all the other populations?
They would also change, most likely
100
What is a single pathway in which energy and nutrients are passed between living organisms?
food chain
100
This fox would be considered a predator or prey?
Predator
200
Most producers get their energy from where?
The sun, themselves
200
What happens to the rest of the energy?
It gets released as heat.
200
What is a food web?
A map of the different interactions between a ecosystem's food chains
200
What's an energy pyramid?
It shows the amount of energy in an ecosystem, and it's transferred
200
Would this fish be considered a predator or prey?
Prey
300
True or false: An organisms can be two types of consumers? How?
True, depends on the order of the food chain
300
What are the 2 ways you can calculate energy transfer to another level?
divide by 10 and move decimal over
300
If the producers are to increase, what would happen to the primary consumers?
They would increase
300
In what direction are the arrows pointing in a food web/food chain?
The direction the energy is flowing
300
What is an organism that lives in or on another and feeds on it without immediately killing it?
Parasitism
400
Would a parasite be considered a consumer? Producer? Or its own thing? Why?
Consumer, it depends on other organisms for energy
400
If the grass has 89,321 calories, how many calories is the eagle receiving?
89.321 calories
400
If the primary consumer decreases, what happens to the tertiary consumers? Why?
They decrease because there will most likely be less secondary consumers?
400
Which consumer receives the most amount of energy from producers?
herbivores
400
What is a cooperative partnership between two
species where they both benefit?
Mutualism
500
Is a decomposer considered a producer? Consumer? Or is its own thing? Why?
It is its own thing category because it relies on dead material.
500
If the tree had 405,899 calories, how many does the hawk have?
40.5899 calories
500
If the tertiary consumers decrease, what would happen to the producers? Why?
They would increase because there would be more secondary consumers, so there would be more less primary consumers, thus, more producers
500
An organism that serves as a primary producer in a food chain.
autotroph
500
What is a relationship where one species benefits and
the other remains unaffected?
Commensalism