C5 Energy transfers Review

Question 1

List trophic levels

Answer 1

Producers -> primary consumers -> secondary consumers -> tertiary consumers -> quaternary consumers

Question 2

What are food chains?

Answer 2

-A model that shows the linear pathway through which energy and matter is transferred from producers to consumers

Question 3

What is biomagnification?

Answer 3

-The increasing concentration of a usually a toxin in the tissues of organisms in higher levels in a food chain
-e.g. DDT (insecticide), agent orange (herbicide)

Question 4

What are trophic levels?

Answer 4

-Like different levels in a food chain
-shows the flow of energy from one organism to another
-each level depends on the one below it for energy