Works Heet: Food Chain Interactions: UNIT - Ecology
Works Heet: Food Chain Interactions: UNIT - Ecology
Works Heet: Food Chain Interactions: UNIT - Ecology
Name: ____________________________
Date: _______________________
Per: ____
c.
d.
b.
2. In a small meadow, producers and consumers make up 1 food chain as shown in the picture above.
If the meadow flower is killed by herbicide spraying, what changes might be expected in the other
meadow species mentioned?
Abiotic c he mic a ls
(CO2, O2, Nitroge n
mine ra ls )
DECOMPOS ERS
(ba c te ria , fungi)
PRODUCERS
(pla nts , tre e s ,
a lga e )
and __________________________.
Cons ume rs
(he rbivore s ,
c a rnivore s )
4. All living organisms are composed of elements stored within our cells. When organisms die- all elements
will eventually be returned to the soil to be used by other organisms. The organisms which carry out the
process of breaking down dead organisms are called __________________________________________.
Minerals & Nutrients
Plants
A Food
We b
Bacteria & Fungi
UNIT Ecology
Name: ____________________________
Date: _______________________
Per: ____
2. Name 3 examples of species that would be found at the top of an energy pyramid?
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
True or False
3. An energy pyramid is a model that shows the amount of available energy available at each feeding
level of an ecosystem. ____________
4. As you go up the pyramid the amount of energy increases. ____________
5. As you go up the pyramid the amount of energy stays the same. ____________
6. An organism at each trophic level stores only 10% of the energy available. Of the remaining energy,
some is used for the organism's life processes, the rest is ___________________ ______
__________.