General Trophic Pyramids Aquatic Food Webs North American
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What is a food chain?
The sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
100
What is the base?
The ____ of the pyramid is composed of species called autotrophs, the primary producers of the ecosystem.
100
What are phytoplankton.
These are eaten by primary consumers like zooplankton, small fish, and crustaceans.
100
What is tertiary?
This type of consumer is known for its ferocity and named after a popular X-Men character
200
What is predator?
In a _______ chain, a plant-eating animal is eaten by a flesh-eating animal.
200
What is heat?
Within all biological communities, energy at each trophic level is lost in this form.
200
Who is plankton?
This character from SpongeBob is a microscopic organism who tries to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula.
200
What are deer mice?
This secondary consumer known as, Peromyscus maniculatus, often referred to as a white-footed mouse, is the most abundant and widely distributed mammal in North America.
300
What is saprotroph? or What is a fungi?
This organism feeds on nonliving organic matter known as detritus at a microscopic level.
300
What is biomass
Herbivores and detritivores (primary consumers) take in less available energy because they are limited by this.
300
What is a predator?
A whale is this type of consumer.
300
What are producers?
The common Larch and Bunchberry are examples of this.
400
What is a trophic level?
This is a step in a nutritive series, or food chain, of an ecosystem.
400
What are phytoplankton?
The trophic structure of the ocean is built on plankton, specifically this.
400
What is invasive?
This type of species ,such as the lionfish, are harmful to all food webs.
400
What is grass?
This plant is a producer while also being the most common of any producer on land.
500
What is a terrestrial food chain?
This food chain features producers, consumers, and decomposers.
500
What are heterotrophs?
All other organisms in the ecosystem are consumers called this, which either directly or indirectly depend on the primary producers for food energy.
500
What is primary?
These types consumers are in turn eaten by fish, small sharks, corals, and baleen whales.
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What are decomposers?
The wine-cap, turkey tail, and morel fungi are all this type of consumer.






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