People are part of food chains. What is the role of a person in a food chain?
Consumer
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next?
10%
What do producers do to get food?
Photosynthesis
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?
Omnivore
Amy is planting tomatoes and carrots in her garden. She notices that small insects like to eat her tomatoes and carrots just like she does. The small insects are examples of what?
Consumers
Grass → Grasshopper → Shrew → Hawk
Which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away?
Grasshopper
How much energy is available in the 4th trophic level is there is 475,000 kCal available in the first?
475 kCal
Name 3 things that a producer needs to make its own food.
Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, and Water
When consumers breathe out what type of gas do they produce?
Carbon Dioxide
What would a mushroom would be classified as?
Decomposer
Grass → Zebra → Hyena → Lion
What would likely happen to the lion if the zebra population decreased?
The lion population will decrease.
What happens to the rest of the energy that is not transferred from trophic level to trophic level?
It gets lost as heat.
Juan wants to grow a sunflower. He makes sure that the plant has the following items in order to grow: sunlight, water, other organisms, and air. Which of these items does the plant NOT need in order to grow?
other organisms
How do consumers get their energy?
They eat other organisms.
Which would be an example of a primary consumer?
Fox
Plant
Caterpillar
Caterpillar
Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl
Identify the tertiary consumer.
Owl
Multiple food chains and/or all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What do producers release that helps consumers breathe?
Oxygen
Identify the secondary consumer in this food chain:
Grass -> Cricket -> Shrew -> Hawk
Shrew
What organisms would experience a population decline with the loss of the rabbit?
Fox and Hawk
Which type of organism on the food web has all of the arrows pointing towards it?
Decomposer