Food Chain I Food Web Lab s1

Quiz 4

1.  You have a paper with circles on it. Follow the directions below.

a.  (2pts) Label each layer as primary consumer, producer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer.

b.  (1 pt) Fill in all sixteen circles with organisms that live in the same ecosystem.

c.  (3pts) Trace the energy through the ecosystem.

d.  (3pts) Infer three results if one organism of your choice is removed. Think how that would affect the food web above and below your organism.

e.  (2pts) Label each level according to the 10% rule.

2.  (1pt) Why is “maker” a good synonym for a producer?

3.  (3pt) Put a c for consumer and a p for producer

a.  Cactus d. Apple tree

b.  Kangaroo e. Mouse

c.  Venus fly trap f. Buffalo

4.  (1pt) Which sentence best describes the similarity between a consumer and a carnivore?

a.  There are no differences between a consumer and a carnivore.

b.  They are completely different from each other.

c.  A consumer is a type of carnivore

d.  A carnivore is a type of consumer

5.  (2pts) When a chipmunk eats a seed how much of the energy available to the seed is transferred to the chipmunk?

6.  (1pt) Use your gift of inference to tell me what a top carnivore would be.

a.  The lone predator on top of your food web.

b.  Nothing eats the top carnivore.

c.  It eats mainly meat (like the bear).

d.  Has to eat a lot because it’s at the top of the food web.

e.  All of the above

f.  A, B, D

7.  (2pt) What are two things you can tell me about producers?

8.  (1pt) Below is a diagram is this a diagram of a food chain or food web?

Grass Cricket Mouse Rat Rattlesnake Eagle

9.  (1pt) Use the above diagram to answer this question. If the grass has 100% of all the energy available, how much does the eagle get of that 100%?

10.  (1pt) What happened to the rest of the energy that did not reach the eagle?

a.  It was lost as body heat.

b.  It was used up by the cricket, mouse, rat, and rattlesnake as they move and hunt.

c.  Nothing all of it was transferred to the eagle.

d.  A, B

11.  (3pts) Draw a food chain for the following situation: Do not add the OLD LADY.

There was an old lady who swallowed an eagle.
I don't know how she swallowed an eagle!
She swallowed the eagle to catch the rattlesnake...
She swallowed the rattlesnake to catch the dog...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

27 points total.

11Answer. Fly Spider bird cat dog rattlesnake eagle