ECCB Exam 4 study Guide correctly
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The flow of energy from plants to herbivores to carnivores represents what type of food chain? -
correct answer ✔✔Grazing food chain
In real life ecology, animals such as sheep and grasshoppers would have to compete for food. If
both sheep and grasshoppers were feeding in a pasture how do you thin the grasshoppers
would affect the sheep? - correct answer ✔✔The sheep consumption efficiency would be
reduced
What type of energy is used in the "respiration" of an animal?
a) standard metabolism (breathing, heart beat)
b) play
c) growth
d) reproduction - correct answer ✔✔a) standard metabolism (breathing, heart beat)
What is the proportion of the gross energy intake this is assimilated?
a) production efficiency (PC)
b) consumption efficiency (CE)
c) trophic efficiency (TE)
d) assimilation efficiency (AE) - correct answer ✔✔d) assimilation efficiency (AE)
How do you calculate production efficiency (PC)?
a) assimilation / ingestion
b) ingestion / primary production
answered 100% passed
The flow of energy from plants to herbivores to carnivores represents what type of food chain? -
correct answer ✔✔Grazing food chain
In real life ecology, animals such as sheep and grasshoppers would have to compete for food. If
both sheep and grasshoppers were feeding in a pasture how do you thin the grasshoppers
would affect the sheep? - correct answer ✔✔The sheep consumption efficiency would be
reduced
What type of energy is used in the "respiration" of an animal?
a) standard metabolism (breathing, heart beat)
b) play
c) growth
d) reproduction - correct answer ✔✔a) standard metabolism (breathing, heart beat)
What is the proportion of the gross energy intake this is assimilated?
a) production efficiency (PC)
b) consumption efficiency (CE)
c) trophic efficiency (TE)
d) assimilation efficiency (AE) - correct answer ✔✔d) assimilation efficiency (AE)
How do you calculate production efficiency (PC)?
a) assimilation / ingestion
b) ingestion / primary production
