"Explain and illustrate the roles of and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web."
Benchmark Clarifications
Students will describe and/or explain the roles of and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web.
Content Limits
Items will not require specific knowledge of organisms.
Items may assess food webs but will not assess food chains.
Items assessing consumers in a food web are limited to primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers.
Items will not assess that the Sun is the source of energy for living things in isolation.
Items will not address energy pyramids or use the term trophic level.