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Ecology Assignment

Please answer the questions in full and complete sentences and in detail.  You will be given 5 attempts and told if your answer is incorrect or incomplete.

Question 1

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What is a food chain? Provide an example to the tertiary consumer.

Question 2

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Explain the concept of a food web. How does it differ from a food chain?

Question 3

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Define an ecological biomass pyramid. What does each level represent?

Question 4

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What is a biome? List and briefly describe five different types of biomes.

Question 5

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Draw and label a simple food chain consisting of four organisms.

Question 6

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How does energy flow through a food chain?

Question 7

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Explain the role of decomposers in a food web.

Question 8

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Describe the relationship between the size of a population and its level on the biomass pyramid.

Question 9

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Why are there fewer organisms at the top of a biomass pyramid compared to the bottom?

Question 10

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Choose a specific biome and discuss the types of organisms that live there and how they have adapted to the environment.

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