Energy Flow - Page 3
Questions
- What is the maximum number of trophic levels an ecosystem can support?
- How does the amount of food a large animal, such as a deer, needs to consume compare to the amount of food a small animal, such as a squirrel, needs to consume?
- What trophic levels undergo photosynthesis?
- Why is the maximum size of an energy pyramid 5 levels?
- Why should we eat from the lower part of the food chain?
- What happens in the food pyramid?
- How does biomass change in different trophic levels?
- If the producer biomass in an ecosystem is 150 kg per hectare, what is the approximate primary consumer biomass that might be expected in the same ecosystem?
- On trophic level pyramids and food pyramids, is level one on the top or bottom?
- Why do different trophic levels have different amounts of energy?
- How are cellular respiration and photosynthesis part of the carbon cycle?
- What is an ecological pyramid?
- What are real life examples of cellular respiration?
- Where do mushrooms fit on the food pyramid?
- What organisms are the producers, first order consumers, second order consumers, and third order consumers in an ecosystem?
- How does cellular respiration affect homeostasis?
- How can trophic levels be deduced?
- Why can't food chains go on forever?
- What trophic level are humans?
- How many trophic levels are included in the energy pyramid?