Energy Flow in Ecosystems Name:____________________Per:___

1. Use the table to the right to draw a 4-member food chain.

Food
Label the producer and levels of consumers. Organism
Source
cat mice, birds

shrew worms
2. Use all of the organisms in the table to draw a food web.
Label the producer and levels of consumers.
robin worms, seeds

wheat photosynthesis

mouse wheat seeds

3. Use the organisms in your food web to

fill in the energy pyramid.
badger shrews

4. Which level of the pyramid has the most

rose photosynthesis
energy available?
plant

worm rotting leaves

5. Where do the organisms in the bottom
layer of the pyramid get their energy?

6. Which organism in the food web is a decomposer? Why are decomposers important?

7. Which organism in the food web to the left is sometimes a first-level

consumer and sometimes a second-level consumer? EXPLAIN.

8. Choose one food chain in the web. Name all the organisms in that
chain. Start with the producer and end with the top-level consumer.

9. Draw an energy pyramid for the food chain you chose.

10. What happens to the amount of energy as it moves up each

level of the pyramid? BE SPECIFIC.