Activity 2: Legit or Scam?
Directions: Write Legit if the statement is correct and Scam if it is wrong
1. Primary consumers always make up the first trophic level in a food web.
2. Ecological pyramids show the relative amount of energy or matter
contained within each trophic level in a given food web.
3. On average, about 50 percent of the energy available within one trophic
level is transferred to the next trophic level.
4. The more levels that exist between a producer and a given consumer, the
larger the percentage of the original energy from producers is available to that
consumer
5. In one food chain, a snake eats a chick that has eaten a worm that has fed on
a plant which produced its own food from sunlight.
6. Only 10% of the energy from one trophic level passes up to the next leve
because the 90% energy is used up for life processes.
7. Hetotrophs can manufacture their own food.​