Consumers
Organisms that eat primarily plants.
What is an herbivore?
What is condensation?
This graphic shows how a single path of energy flows in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
These types of organisms produce their own food.
What are autotrophs?
This organism primarily eats the flesh of other organisms to get the energy needed for survival.
What is a carnivore?
Burning fossil fuels releases carbon into this global system.
What is the atmosphere?
Each step in a food chain represents this.
What is a trophic level?
Organisms that get their energy from consuming other organisms.
What is a heterotroph?
This consumer is also known as the "clean up crew."
What is a detritivore?
Carbon can move from the atmosphere to plants through this process in the carbon cycle.
What is photosynthesis?
This pyramid is helpful for visualizing how many individuals are present in each trophic level.
What is a pyramid of numbers?
Almost all available energy in any ecosystem comes from this group of organisms.
What are producers?
This organism is a generalist; it is not too picky with its meals.
What is an omnivore?
Rain, snow and sleet are all forms of this.
What is precipitation?
Only about this percent of energy makes it to the next trophic level as you move up the food chain.
What is 10%?
These organisms are eating the producers in an ecosystem.
What are primary consumers?
These organisms do the heavy lifting in recycling nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
This type of movement of water describes how the leaves of a plant lose water.
What is transpiration?
This word describes the weight of all organisms in an ecosystem, and can be broken down for each trophic level.
What is biomass?
An apex predator might be one of these types of consumers
What is a tertiary or quaternary consumer?
Process by which nitrogen is taken from the air and converted to usable forms by bacteria.
What is assimilation?