Biology 0610 · IGCSE · Food chains and food webs

Food chains and food webs — practice question

Fig. 4.1 displays a marine food web.
(a(i))[3]

Put ticks (✓) in the boxes to indicate the correct descriptions of the organisms in Fig. 4.1.

(a(ii))[2]

Construct a food chain from Fig. 4.1 made up of four organisms, with the octopus included.

(a(iii))[1]

Identify one organism in Fig. 4.1 that feeds at both the second and third trophic levels.

(b)[1]

State the name of the type of organism that gains its energy from dead organic material.

(c)[1]

State the principal source of energy for most biological systems.

(d)[3]

Outline the ways humans can directly impact food webs.

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