Energy Flow
Vocabulary
Producers and consumers
Symbiosis Examples
Energy Pyramid
Symbiosis
Don't Choose Me
Choose Me
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In a pond ecosystem, which are the producers? A. big fish B. small fish C. tiny plants and algae D. tiny animals
C
100
Makes the food that animals need to live.
What is a producer?
100
What is an animal called that eats plants and animals?
Omnivore
100
A cleaner fish helps to remove parasites from larger fish. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
Mutualism
100
What shape is used to represent energy levels in an ecosystem?
A pyramid (or triangle)
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What is an example of commensalism?
Anything where One species benefits one is unaffected.
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100
Give the other team +500 points UNLESS
You can list all of the trophic levels in a complex food web starting at the bottom.
Producer->Primary Consumer->Secondary Consumer ->Tertiary Consumer ->Quaternary Consumer
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Act Out Parasitism
😃☹️(One species benefits, One is hurt)
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Name the four trophic levels in order from most energy available to least.
Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer
200
This vocabulary word describes how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
200
Q: Name two examples of autotrophs found in most ecosystems.
Plants
Algae
Trees
Bushes
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When ants protect a tree and the tree provides them with shelter (type of symbiosis)
Mutualism
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If a producer has 1,000 units of energy, how many units would a primary consumer have access to?
100 units (10% of 1,000)
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name a mutualistic relationship
Happy Happy!
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200
If you're winning....
If you're losing...
Give the other team +400 points
Take +400 points from the winning team
200
Whoever choose this question....show me the best dougie
If they do it +200
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What is the process called in which producers make their own food?
What is photosynthesis
300
Gets energy by eating food not producing it.
What is a consumer? OR what is heterotrophic.?
300
What is an animal called that eats meat
Double Points if you can give me the other name (Think of a food web)
Carnivore
Secondary/ Tertiary/Quaternary/ Pentenary
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What type of relationship is a sea anemone and a clownfish?
Mutualistic
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Why does an energy pyramid get narrower as you go from bottom to top?
Because energy is lost at each level as organisms use energy for life processes (movement, digestion, heat).
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What is a comensalistic relationship
One species benefits the other is unaffected
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Come to the front of the room and face your class.
Choose a partner.
I'm going to have you act out one of the types of symbiosis. If your team can guess in under 30 seconds then you get
+300
if not then the other team gets +300
Parasitism 😀😞
300
Come to the front of the room and face your class.
Choose a partner.
I'm going to have you act out one of the types of symbiosis. If your team can guess in under 30 seconds then you get
+300
if not then the other team gets +300
Mutualism 😄😄 (Both Species Benefit)
400
Almost all food chains begin with this
What is the sun?
400
What is an animal called that eats another animal for its energy?
Carnivore OR
Secondary Consumer
400
What is an animal called that eats plants?
Double Points if you can give me the other name (Think of a food web)
Herbivore
Primary Consumer 
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A bird makes a nest in a tree, the tree is not hurt by the bird.
Commensalism
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In an energy pyramid, which level has the most energy available: producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, or tertiary consumers?
Producers (they receive unlimited energy directly from the sun)
400
Invent a fake symbiotic relationship between two weird animals
NOICE!
400
What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, and yet never in a thousand years
The letter M!
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Act out commensalism
😃😑(one benefits, one doesn't care)
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Why are food webs considered a more accurate representation of energy flow in real ecosystems than food chains
Because real ecosystems have multiple feeding relationships. Most organisms eat more than one type of food, and most organisms are eaten by more than one predator. Food webs show these complex interactions better.
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Meaning of biotic
living
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Explain why all heterotrophs depend on autotrophs for survival, even if they don't eat plants directly
Because heterotrophs either eat autotrophs directly OR eat other organisms that ate autotrophs. All energy originally comes from producers/autotrophs through the sun.
500
A flea latching onto a human is an example of....
Parasitism
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Calculate: If producers have 50,000 units of energy, how much energy would be available to a tertiary consumer?
50
500
What does symbiosis mean?
Living close together
Sym- together
Bio- Living
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Give 500 points to the other team.
500
Describe the energy pyramid rules in under 30 seconds without saying "energy"
Imagine a triangle. At the bottom, you've got producers—plants soaking up the sun. As you go up each level, there's less and less available for the next group because organisms use what they consume to move, grow, and stay warm. So predators at the top get way less than the herbivores below them, which is why there are fewer big predators than small prey animals. It's all about loss as you climb. (10% Rule)