Energy
The cells ability to do work is this.
What is Energy?
These organisms eat plants. Also known as herbivores.
What are primary consumers?
An organsim that must consume other organsims for energy.
What are heterotrophs?
The largest populations in an energy pyramid.
What are the producers?
Cells use this molecule for energy.
What is ATP?
These organisms will eat primary consumers. Also known as carnivores or omnivores.
What are secondary consumers?
Typically smaller organisms that absorb nutrients from dead decaying matter.
What are decomposers?
The smallest population in the energy pyramid.
What are top predators/tertiary consumers?
This is the word used for energy in ecology.
What is trophic?
These are organisms that produce their own food through light energy.
What are producers?
Organism that uses the Sun to gain food.
What is an autotroph?
In a food chain or web, the arrow points to this.
What is the consumer?
Energy can’t be transferred with 100% efficiency, some will be lost in the process.
What is Law #2?
Food energy is measured in this.
What is kcals or kilocalories?
These organisms will eat secondary consumers. Also known as carnivores or omnivores.
What are tertiary consumers?
Typically larger organisms that consume dead or decaying organic matter.
What are detritivores?
The amount of energy transfered between trophic levels.
What is 10%?
Energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed, only converted.
What is Law #1
Energy for abiotic factors is measured in this.
What is joules?
They support all other trophic levels.
What are producers?
This will show multiple feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?