Energy movement through an ecosystem part 2

Question 1

What is a food chain?

Answer 1

A simple, linear model that shows how energy moves from producers to consumers. Ex: sum - grass - grasshopper - shrew - Owl.

Question 2

What is a food web?

Answer 2

An interrelated (connected) food chain’s within an ecosystem and shows all possible feeding relationships.

Question 3

Which level do producers come in on the trophic level?

Answer 3

Producers are always on the first trophic level.

Question 4

Which level do primary consumers are in?

Answer 4

Primary Consumers are in the 2nd trophic level.

Question 5

Which level do secondary consumers are in?

Answer 5

Secondary Consumers are in the 3rd trophic level.

Question 6

Which level do tertiary consumers are in?

Answer 6

Tertiary Consumers are in the 4th trophic level.

Question 7

Which level do Quaternary Consumers are in?

Answer 7

Quaternary Consumers are in the 5th trophic level.

Question 8

How does energy flow in trophic levels?

Answer 8

Energy flows from the lowest to the highest trophic level.

Question 9

How much percent does energy get lost from one trophic level to the next?

Answer 9

90%

Question 10

How much percent does the energy get transferred to the next trophic level?

Answer 10

10%

Question 11

Which type of consumer is a primary consumer?

Answer 11

Herbivores

Question 12

Which type of consumer is a secondary consumer?

Answer 12

Carnivores/Omnivores

Question 13

Which type of consumer is a tertiary consumer?

Answer 13

Carnivores/Omnivores

Question 14

Which type of consumer is a quarternary consumer?

Answer 14

Carnivores/Omnivores

Question 15

What does the stability of a food web depend on?

Answer 15

PRODUCERS

Question 16

What happens to the lost energy?

Answer 16

It is consumed by the plants to make glucose and fats and some of it goes into the atmosphere and produces heat or is used by animals to grow.