FOOD WEB VOCAB
What is the first trophic level in a food chain?
PRODUCER
– an individual form of life such as an animal, a plant, a fungus, etc
ORGANISMS
RIVERS and STREAMS are examples of LENTIC OR LOTIC ECOSYSTEMS?
LOTIC
The eastern red bat eats a variety of insects including mosquitoes. In this example, the eastern red bat is the
PREDATOR
The two components of an ecosystem
BIOTIC and ABIOTIC
an organism that eats both producers and consumers, and is often referred to as a “plant and meat eater.”
OMNIVORE
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
ECOSYSTEMS
The portion of the planet in which living things are found
BIOSPHERE
What does the arrows indicate in a food web?
FLOW OF ENERGY
Jacob is going out to his grandparents farm. On the farm is a stream that he likes to fish at. When he is fishing he sees many differernt speacies of fish as well as maple and oak trees and dragonflies. What Jacob is seeing is an example of what level of organization?
COMMUNITY
Other name for producers. An organism that makes its own food using sunlight or chemical energy.
AUTOTROPHS
Freshwater ecosystems that are considered as standing waters like lakes and ponds are called?
LENTIC ECOSYSTEMS
make a food chain with the following: -mouse -snake -seeds -hawk
Seeds - mouse - snake - hawk
in a food chain grass-->grasshopper-->frog-->snake. Which animal gets the least energy?
Snake
Andrea is on the grils cross country tream. She is heading out for a run when she comes across 20 Canadian geese. What level of organization is this group of Canadian geese?
POPULATION
The animal at the top of the food chain is called
APEX PREDATOR
What are the 2 major categories of aquatic ecosystems?
Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems
Each step in a food chain or food web.
TROPHIC LEVELS
Draw a food web on the board with 3 food chains.
ANSWER VARIES
Enumerate all the levels of ecological organization
ORGANISM, POPULATION, COMMUNITY, ECOSYSTEMS, BIOSPHERE
Each stages in a food chain or a food web is called?
TROPHIC LEVEL
It is a marine ecosystem where river waters and ocean waters meet?
ESTUARIES
This organism gains the suns energy by eating other organism.
Consumers or Heterotrophs
Draw a food web on the board with 3 food chains and identify the producer and apex predator.
ANSWER VARIES
Abby is walking to school with her best friend Jaylyn. They begin talking about everything they see including the ash trees, grass, weeds, ants, and people. They also notice how cold it is, how there are several large puffy clouds out, and how the sun is just starting to come up. What level of organization are they discussing?
ECOSYSTEMS