Food Web Questions
What is used to indicate the flow of energy in a diagram of a food chain or food web?

What three things can happen to energy moving from step to step in a food chain or food web?

Define food web.

What is meant by a trophic level?

Define autotroph.

The 2ndt trophic level consists of _______ consumers called _.

Secondary consumers may be _ eating meat or ___ that eat both plants and animals.

Identify the organisms that occupy the 4th trophic level.

The 5th trophic level includes _ consumers that eat _ consumers.

Give an example of 3 detritivores. On what do they feed?

What does external digestion mean?

Both and ______act as decomposers

Can an organism fill more than one trophic level --- yes or no? Give an example.

1. Arrows are used to indicate flow in a food chain
2. Energy can get lost through use of energy, energy decreases as u move up trophic levels,
3. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
4. A tropics level is like the producers, first consumers being herbivores and then secondary consumers being carnivores
5. An autotroph or primary producer is an organism that produces complex organic compounds using carbon from simple substances such as carbon dioxide, generally using energy from light or inorganic chemical reactions.
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