Vocabulary
Food Chains & Webs
Ecosystem Levels
Energy
Random
100
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
100
These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
What are autotrophs?
100
Two or more organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
100

The percent of energy that is available to each trophic level.

What is 10%?

100

An organism that eats plants ONLY.

What is a herbivore?

200
Non-living factors in a community are called..
What is abiotic factors?
200
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
200
Includes all of the area in which life is found on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
200

This is the amount of energy that each organisms uses to live its life.

What is 90%?

200

This is an organisms that eats meat ONLY.

What is a carnivore?

300
Something that only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
300
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
300
One individual
What is a organism?
300

This is the trophic level that has the MOST available energy.

What are the producers?

300
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
Two or populations of species.
What is a community?
400

This is the trophic level that has the fewest organisms(biomass) because it has the least available energy.

What is a quaternary consumer, tertiary consumer, or high order consumer?

400

This is the direction an arrow will be pointing in a food chain or a food web.

What is in the direction of energy flow?

500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
What is a food chain?
500
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
500
Includes all of the living and non-living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
500

A bear will get ________% of energy from eating a berry bush, as opposed to getting only _______% from eating a rabbit.

What is 10%, 1%?

500

This is the type of species that has an unusually large effect on an ecosystem.

What is a keystone species?

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