Vocabulary
Food Chain and web
Ecosystem Level
Energy Flow
Random
100
Make food
Producer
100
What is grass an example of.
What is a producer.
100
In a food pyramid each level depends on the one (Above or Below) it for energy.
What is below
100
Energy in an ecosystem originally comes from the...
What is the Sun
100
Eat Plants & Animals
Omnivores
200
Is a living organism
What is Biotic
200
(True or False)
All organisms eventually die and decompose
True
200
Each level in a food chain or food web is a ________.
What is a trophic level
200
Feed On Dead Plant & Animal Remains
Ex:Earthworms and slugs
What is Detritivores
200
Always the first trophic level
What is a producer
300
Any organism that can produce its own food supply.
What is an Autotroph
300
Name the producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore in the food chain
Producer: Grass
Consumer: Grasshopper, mouse, owl
Herbivore:Grasshopper
Carnivore: Mouse and owl
300
energy is moved from one trophic level to the next, only ___ % of the energy makes it to the next level.
What is 10%
300
Energy flows through ecosystems from ________ to ____________.
What is producer to consumer
300
Which is the territory consumer?
What is a Squid
400
Single pathway of energy through an ecosystem
What is a food chain
400
Which is the secondary consumer?
What is small fish.
400
Does the amount of energy always (increase or decrease) when moving up the trophic level.
What is decrease
400
Energy flows through an ecosystem in _________
What is one direction
400
Plants, algae, some protists, & some bacteria are examples.
Autotrophs
500
eat other organisms to obtain energy.
What is a hetrotroph
500
All the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web
500
These are diagrams that represent each trophic level according to its energy, biomass and population.
Ecological Pyramids
500
In this hypothetical ecosystem, which organism will receive the least amount of energy in the food pyramid?
Seal, Green algae, Great white shark
What is the great white shark
500
Organisms that eat detritus and break it down into nutrients.
What is a decomposer