Ecosystems
Smallest component of an ecosystem of the following (Ecosystem, Organism, Community, Population)
What is Organism?
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. This is shown by drawing a ________________.
What is a food chain?
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. The algae is in/on the (bottom, middle, or top) of energy pyramid.
What is on the bottom?
A system of interconnected and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What is consumer?
Second component of an ecosystem (smallest to largest) of the following (Ecosystem, Organism, Community, Population)
What is Population?
Arrows in a food chain show that this is being transferred.
What is energy?
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. The snails are in/on the (bottom, middle, or top) of energy pyramid.
What is in the middle?
This is another word for a first level consumer.
What is a primary consumer?
A palm tree is an example of this type of organism.
What is producer?
Third component of an ecosystem (smallest to largest) of the following (Ecosystem, Organism, Community, Population)
What is Community?
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. This organism is written first on a food chain.
What is algae?
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. The ducks are in/on the (bottom, middle, or top) of energy pyramid.
What is on the top?
One example of omnivores in a food web.
What is birds eat grasshoppers and grains (animals and plants)?
What is parasitism?
Largest component of an ecosystem of the following (Ecosystem, Organism, Community, Population)
What is Ecosystem?
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. This organism is written second on a food chain.
What is snails?
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. The ducks are also known as the (producer, primary consumer, or secondary consumer).
What is the secondary consumer?
This is another word for a second level consumer.
What is secondary consumer (carnivore)?
What is primary consumer?.
An example of an abiotic factor.
What is a rock (or soil, temperature, water, anything NON-living)
Ducks eat snails and snails eat algae. This organism is written last on a food chain.
What is ducks?
Only this percentage of energy is passed on through trophic levels.
What is 10%?
You can tell an organism is a producer on a food web because _______________________________.
What is there are no arrows drawn to the producers?
In an energy pyramid, the producers make 6,000 calories of energy. How much energy would a tertiary consumer get?
What is 6 calories?