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Fun Marine Trivia
100
This percent of energy is transferred up the food chain.
What is 10%
100
Where do you normally find producers on the food chain?
The bottom.
100
True or False: If a member of a food chain disappears, the rest of the food chain will be fine.
False
100
This is the largest animal on Earth.
What is a blue whale?
200
This is the primary source of energy in all ecosystems.
What is the sun?
200
This type of animal only eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
200
If the number of predators increase, we would expect the prey population to...
Decrease
200
This is the only sea creature where the male gives birth.
What is a seahorse?
300
These types of organisms can get energy by harnessing energy from the sun.
What are producers/ plants/ autotrophs?
300
This type of animal eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
List three human actions that negatively impact marine ecosystems.
Pollution, overfishing, littering, development near the beach, noise pollution, etc.
300
This fish munches on coral and produces 85% of the sand on Earth.
What is a parrotfish?
400
This process allows producers to make their own food using energy from the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
400
True/False: In a food chain or food web, the arrows show the direction of energy transfer.
True
400
Which type of model provides the most complete representation of the feeding relationships within a community?
Food Web
400
This animal has been alive for 650 million years, making them older than sharks and dinosaurs.
What is a Jellyfish?
500
Autotrophs get their energy from the sun, heterotrophs get energy by doing this.
What is eating?
500
This important member of the ecosystem is often left out of food chains because they break down dead plant and animal matter.
What is a decomposer?
500
What does letter X represent?
Producers
500
This animal can change genders based on what is best for mating.
What is an oyster?