Energy Pyramid
What do you eat?
Food Chains
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Role in the Ecosystem
100

Where are the producers on the Energy Pyramid?

At the bottom.

100
Only eats meat
What is a carnivore
100
This is the source of all energy on earth.
What is the sun
100
The shape of the energy pyramid.
What is a triangle
100
Animal that hunts for its food.
What is a predator
200

What do primary consumers eat?

Producers

200
Only eats plants
What is a herbivore
200
These are organisms that make their own food and are after the sun in a food chain.
What are producers
200
Name three things a plant needs to do photosynthesis
What is air, sunlight, water
200
Animal that is eaten by a predator
What is prey.
300

Describe how fungi, a decomposer, grow on fruit and continue to grow.

There are spores in the air. It comes into contact with the moist fruit that provides the fungi with nutrients. 

300
Eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore
300
The organism that eats the producer is called this.
Primary consumer
300

Why is it important to have decomposers?

They break down dead organic matter (plants and animals) and recycle nutrients back into the soil, which can be used by plants.

300
Organism that cannot make its own food.
What is a consumer
400

Which level of consumer gets the most amount of energy?

Primary consumer

400
A tertiary or third level consumer is usually one of these
What is a carnivore
400
Organism that eats the primary consumer.
What is a secondary consumer
400
The vocabulary word for a living thing in an ecosystem
What is organism
400
Organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis.
What is a Producer
500

Which organism has the least amount of energy available?

Tertiary consumers or apex predator

500
Why do we need predators in our ecosystem?
Because without predators we have would have too much prey.
500
Organism that eats the secondary consumer
What is the tertiary consumer
500
The amount of energy passed in the energy pyramid
What is 10%
500
Organism that obtains nutrients from dead organisms around it.
What is a decomposer
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