Food Chains
Food Webs
Energy Pyramids
Obtaining Energy
Vocab
100
Generally the first item in a food chain
What is the sun/plants/producer?
100
Where plants are located on the food web
What is the bottom?
100
Identify the apex predator
What is a lion?
100
Herbivores get their energy from eating ___
What are plants?
100
An organism that gets it's energy from eating other animals
What is carnivore?
200
Organisms that obtain their energy through photosynthesis
What are plants?
200
The direction the arrows eventually meet
What is the top?
200
The type of animal at the top of an energy pyramid
What is an apex predator?
200
The way energy is transferred between living organisms
What is eating?
200
Herbivore ?
Eats plants only
300
A more efficient model than a food chain
What is a food web?
300
Arrows on a food web go toward the animal that ___s the animal that the arrow is coming from
What is eat?
300
The direction the transfer of energy follows
What is up?
300
The amount of energy transferred through each level
What is 10%?
300
A process in which materials, especially toxins, are ingested by an organism at a rate greater than they are eliminated.
Bioaccumulation
400
Complete the following food chain with the appropriate type of organism (Ie. secondary consumer)
Sun >>> Grass >>> ? >>> Wolf
What is a primary consumer?
400
An organism that can be located anywhere on a food web
What is a decomposer?
400
Why the bottom of the pyramid is bigger than the top?
What is there is more organisms in the ecosystem
400
Reasons energy is lost between levels
What are body functions, sharing of food, hunting for the food, etc.
400
Consists of all living and non-living things.
What is an ecosystem?
500
Food chains generally contains only ____ factors
what is biotic?
500
What would be at the top of an arctic ocean ecosystem?
What is an Orca?
500
Part of a food chain not part of a energy pyramid
What is the sun?
500
Energy can not be obtained from ____
What is abiotic factors?
500
These factors in ecosystems can be living now, or could have been living at one time.
What is a biotic factor.