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Interactions in Ecosystems

The document is a review worksheet for Unit 1: Energy Transfer in the Biosphere, designed for a Biology 20 course. It includes various questions related to food webs, trophic levels, energy absorption, and ecological pyramids. Students are required to match terms, explain concepts, and analyze food webs and ecosystems.

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Interactions in Ecosystems

The document is a review worksheet for Unit 1: Energy Transfer in the Biosphere, designed for a Biology 20 course. It includes various questions related to food webs, trophic levels, energy absorption, and ecological pyramids. Students are required to match terms, explain concepts, and analyze food webs and ecosystems.

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UNIT 1: ENERGY TRANSFER IN THE BIOSPHERE

Topic 1 Review
1)​ Match each of the following descriptions with the appropriate term (note: some
terms may be used twice): (13)

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2)​ Why are food webs often limited to three or four trophic levels? (1)
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3)​ Snow and ice cover have an albedo of 80-90%, meaning that much of the sun’s
energy is reflected rather than absorbed. As a result of climate change, ecologists are
noticing a drastic reduction in the size of polar ice caps…

a.​ What does this imply about the amount of energy that is actually being absorbed
by the earth’s surface? (1)
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b.​ Predict how this will affect (or is already affecting) tundra ecosystems. (1)
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4)​ Are decomposers autotrophs or heterotrophs? Explain. (2)


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5)​ Consider the food web below…

a)​ What does the direction of the arrows signify? (1)

b)​ Which organisms are classified as autotrophs? (1)

c)​ Which organism is classified as an omnivore? (1)

d)​ What would be the impact on the weasel and field mouse populations if the snake
population in this ecosystem was to suddenly decrease? (2)

e)​ Which organism would have the least energy available to it? (1)

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6)​ Could one species ever feed on more than one trophic level within the same food
web? Provide an example, and explain how this type of interaction might enhance
the stability of an ecosystem. (2)
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7)​ Are pyramids of numbers always upright? Explain why or why not. (2)
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8)​ What type of ecological pyramid is represented by the diagram below? Explain how
you know. (2)

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