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Biology Test

Jo-marie Jitta 3.3

1) Define food chain.


A food chain is a series of which organisms depend on
each other for food.
b) Define food web.
A food web is a group of food chains within an
ecosystem.
c) Draw two food chains that contains at least 4 organisms
from the food web.
Banana Plant ------ Macaw ------ Chimpanzee ------Jaguar
Coconut ------ Insects ------ Parrots ------ Vampire Bats
2) A)1) Identify one organism from the food web that is
both a primary and secondary consumer.
In this case the chimpanzee is a primary and secondary
consumer.
A)2) Identify one organism from the 4th trophic level.
The Monkey is one organism from the from the 4th trophic
level.
B) Explain why each subsequent trophic level has less
energy than the previous level.
Energy decreases as it goes up the trophic levels because
energy is lost as metabolic heat when the organisms from
one trophic level are consumed by the next trophic level.
C) Suggest one way in which the food web would be
affected if the parrots are removed.
There will be a reduce in the vampire bat species because
its only food source would have been removed.

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