Ecology: Food Webs and Ecological Pyramids Test, Review Questions, and Keys

You will receive in PDF format:

• Review questions with answer key
• Test with answer key
• Differentiated test with answer key

The test is multiple choice, matching, and short answer.
The review questions cover all of the material on the test:

• What is the difference in a food chain and a food web?
• What is an apex predator?
• How do producers get their energy?
• What is the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs?
• What do the arrows on a food web represent?
• What do primary consumers eat?
• What is the difference between producers and consumers?
• How much energy from each trophic level moves to the next level?
• Define the following: Carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore.
• What are scavengers and decomposers? How do they fit in a food web?
• How much energy would move through each trophic level, up to tertiary consumers, if the producers have 5,642kcal of energy?
• Draw an ecological pyramid with 4 trophic levels. Label the following: tertiary consumer, herbivore, heterotroph, autotroph, primary consumer, apex predator, producer, and secondary consumer.
• (Use the food web to answer) Which organism(s) in the food web is a primary consumer? Secondary consumer? Tertiary consumer? Producer? Apex predator?
• (Use the food web to answer) Choose one food chain in the food web, list all organisms starting with the producer and ending with the highest-level consumer in that food chain.
• (Use the food web to answer) How would the ecosystem change if you removed one apex predator from this food web?