Hierarchy of Life
Cycles
Sun -> Plants -> Animals
Chains, Webs, and Pyramids, Oh My
Vocab
Disney!
100

This level emphasizes energy flow and chemical cycling between organisms and the environment

What is Ecosystem Ecology?

100

This process is represented by arrow A.

What is Photosynthesis?

100

This type of organism feeds only on plants

What is a Herbivore?

100

This is the name for the model that shows the interlocking feeding relationships between organisms on different trophic levels.

What is a Food Web?

100

This is what the term Biotic means.

What is Living?

100

Disney acquired this company for $4 billion dollars in 2009

What is Marvel Entertainment?

200

This level is concerned with the global ecosystem which is the sum of all the planet’s ecosystems and landscapes

What is Biosphere Ecology?

200

What process is represented by arrow A?

What is Precipitation?

200

This is the original source of ALL energy in an Ecosystem.

What is the Sun?

200

The Grasshopper in the Food Chain below would be known as this:


Herbivore
Heterotroph
Primary Consumer

200

This is what the term Abiotic means.

What is Non-Living?

200

This was the first Disney cartoon that used mickey mouse as well as voice acting

What is Steamboat Willie?

300

This level considers factors affecting population size over time

What is Population Ecology?

300

What process is represented by arrow D?

What is Evaporation?

300

This is a general term for organisms that get their food from eating other organisms.

What is a Consumer or HETEROTROPH?

300

This is the amount of energy transferred between the levels of a Trophic Pyramid.

What is 10%?

300

These are long-term prevailing weather conditions in an area

What is Climate?

300

This was the first full-length Disney film

What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?

400

This level focuses on the factors controlling exchanges of energy, materials, and organisms across multiple
ecosystems

What is Biome Ecology?

400

This process is represented by arrow B.

What is Respiration?

400

This is a general term for organisms that can make their own food.

What it a Producer or an AUTOTROPH?

400

Identify a Tertiary Consumer from the Food Web below:


Great Blue Heron
Large Mouth Bass
Green Sunfish
Little Timmy

400

This is caused by the tilt of Earth’s axis and annual passage around the sun

What are Seasons or Seasonality?

400

Walt Disney World Park is approximately the same size as this American city.

What is San Francisco?

500

This level considers how interactions between species affect community structure and organization

What is Community Ecology?

500

This process is represented by arrow C.

What is Decomposition?

500

This type of organism breaks down dead/decaying materials.

What are Decomposers or DETRITIVORES.

500

A snake that eats a frog that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant would be known as this.

What is a Tertiary Consumer?

Plant = Producer
Insect = Primary Consumer (Herbivore)
Frog = Secondary Consumer (Carnivore/Insectivore)
Snake = Tertiary Consumer (Carnivore)

500

These are the four major components of climate

What is: temperature, precipitation, sunlight, and wind

500

This is how old Walt Disney was when he died.

What is 65 years old.

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