This food chain shows the sun, a producer, and consumers. What important part of the food chain was left out of this image?
Decomposer- needed to break down and recycle nutrients back into the soil
Which animal populations are FIRST to be affected if the plankton in the aquatic ecosystem were to become extinct?
Penguins, Krill
Which animal populations are FIRST to be affected if the krill in the aquatic ecosystem were to become extinct?
Seal, Squid, Seagull, Blue Whale
What would happen in this aquatic ecosystem food web if the blue whale became extinct?
Blue whales eat krill so there would be more krill. Krill eat plankton so there would be less plankton.
What animal populations are first to be affected in this coniferous forest ecosystem if the grass were to completely disappear?
Mouse and squirrel
What animal populations are first to be affected in this coniferous forest ecosystem if the seeds were to completely disappear?
Mouse and squirrel
In the energy pyramid here, which organisms have the most energy available?
Producers
Herbivores
Herbivores Top Predator
Carnivores
In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?
20%
10%
100%
The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:
Producers
Tertiary Consumers
Secondary Consumers
Primary Consumers
