Vocab
This is an animal that eats only plants?
What is a herbivore?
This is an environment that meets the needs of an organism.
What is a habitat?
This is an animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
This is where plants get their energy from.
What is the sun?
These are overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
What are decomposers?
This is an animal that is hunted by other animals?
What is prey?
How much energy is passed on to the next level of an energy pyramid?
This is an animal that eats only other animals?
What is a carnivore?
This shows how much energy is passed from one group of organisms to others.
What is the energy pyramid?
Identify the animal as a carnivore, omnivore, or herbivore:
Hyena
Tiger
Hippopotamus
Hyena - Omnivore
Tiger - Carnivore
Hippopotamus - Herbivore
Carnivores get energy from eating animals, while herbivore get it from eating plants.
This is the movement of food energy in a series of organism.
What is a food chain?
How does the death of an organism affect the food web?
Organisms that it eats' population will increase, while animals that eat it will decrease.
First-level consumers get energy by eating these?
What are producers?
They get it from eating producers.
This is the role each organism has in its habitat.
What is niche?
Why can carnivores not survive without producers?
They need to eat animals that get their energy from producers.
Why are there fewer higher level predators than there are prey?
Each predator needs to eat many prey, so there needs to be more of them or the energy pyramid will break down.
What is the role of a mushroom?
It breaks down dead organisms and puts their nutrients back into the soil.