3.3 - Trophic Levels
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Practice Questions
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What is a producer?
💡 Hint: Think about plants and photosynthesis.
Can you name a primary consumer?
💡 Hint: What eats grass?
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What are the first trophic level organisms called?
💡 Hint: What makes its own food?
True or False: Only 10% of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
💡 Hint: Think about how energy is used and wasted.
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Predict how the removal of a tertiary consumer from an ecosystem will impact the population dynamics of other trophic levels.
💡 Hint: Consider the balances between predator and prey.
Evaluate the role of keystone species in trophic levels and how their removal might affect the entire food web.
💡 Hint: Think of species that have a large impact relative to their biomass.
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