Energy Roles
I can make my own food through photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
Hermit crabs use the shells that snails no longer need. This is what kind of relationship?
What is commensalism?
This level of the energy pyramid has the most available energy.
What are the producers?
The direction of energy flow from one organism to another is represented by an _______________.
What is an arrow?
Organisms that depend on each other in a food web are called __________________.
What is interdependent?
I break down the wastes and remains of dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
This organism lives in or on another organism and feeds on its host directly or on the food that the host ingests.
What is a parasite?
Second level consumers are also known as __________________.
Secondary consumers
Which list shows a possible order in which energy moves through an ecosystem?
a. sun, producer, decomposer, carnivore
b. sun, producer, omnivore, carnivore, decomposer
c. sun, herbivore, carnivore, decomposer
What is b. sun, producer, omnivore, carnivore, decomposer?
A diagram that shows a connection of several different food chains is called __________________.
What is a food web?
What is a consumer?
An organism that nourishes another organism.
What is a host?
A diagram that shows how much energy passes from one trophic level to the next.
What is an energy pyramid?
A diagram that shows the transfer of food energy from one organism to another in a single path.
What is a food chain?
A predator at the top of the food web that is not preyed upon by other animals is called ___________.
What is an apex predator?
This is the primary source of energy in an ecosystem.
What is the sun?
A relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
As we move up the energy pyramid, __________ is lost.
What is energy?
An organism that eats the remains of dead plants and animals and can also be a carnivore or an omnivore.
What is a scavenger?
If an entire species goes extinct, what happens to the other organisms in the food web?
What is the entire ecosystem can be affected?
or. What is all the organisms will be affected in the ecosystem?
A black bear is an example of this kind of consumer.
What is a omnivore?
Oxpeckers are birds that eat ticks, flies, and other insects from cattle. The oxpecker receives nourishment and the animal that it grooms receives pest control.
What type of relationship is this?
What is mutualism?
Tertiary consumers are also known as ______________.
What are third level consumers?
Fungus, bacteria and earthworms are examples
What are decomposers?
______________________ are usually represented at the bottom of a food web.
What are producers?