True or False
Chains, Webs, and Pyramids
Types of Consumers
Lesson 1 Vocab.
Lesson 2 Vocab.
100
True or False: Consumers produce their own food.
False. Producers produce their own food; consumers eat other organisms as food.
100
What is the first step in a basic food chain?
The Sun provides energy to producers.
100
Maggots are __________ and would consume a dead rabbit.
Detritivores.
100
A series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into the food-energy molecule glucose and give off oxygen.
Photosynthesis.
100
An organism that uses an outside energy source, such as the Sun, and produces its own food.
Producer.
200
True or False: After organisms die, they becomes nutrients for producers.
True.
200
Which is a model of feeding relationships?
A) protein building
B) food map
C) food web
D) sugar molecules
C) food web.
200
A ___________ would eat a hamburger with lettuce on it because they are consumers of plants and meat.
Omnivores.
200
All the living things and nonliving things in a given area.
Ecosystem.
200
An organism that cannot make its own food and gets energy by eating other organisms.
Consumer.
300
True or False: Available energy increases as it is transferred from one organism to another in a food chain.
False. Energy decreases at it is transferred from one organism to another.
300
Which of the following organisms would NOT be in the first trophic level of an energy pyramid?
A) dog
B) tree
C) grass
D) algae
A) dog.
300
Koalas are _____________ and loves to eat eucalyptus leaves.
Herbivores.
300
A series of chemical reactions that convert the energy in food molecules into a usable form of energy called ATP.
Cellular Respiration.
300
A model that shows how energy flows in an ecosystem through feeding relationships.
Food Chain.
400
True or False: All apex predators are carnivores.
False. Some apex predators, such as grizzly bears, eat berries along with their main diet of meat.
400
As you move upward, from level to level, in an energy pyramid, what happens to the available energy?
The energy decreases.
400
Sharks, tigers, and polar bears are all ____________ and only consume meat.
Carnivores.
400
A process by which glucose, a sugar, is broken down into smaller molecules.
Glycolysis.
400
A model of energy transfer that can show how the food chains in a community are interconnected.
Food Web.
500
True or False: Energy cycles through ecosystems because it returns to the Sun.
False. Energy does not cycle through ecosystems; instead, it flows in a one-way direction starting at the Sun.
500
How many levels are in the energy pyramid? (Bonus 50 points for every level you can name).
Five: Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, Tertiary Consumers, Quaternary Consumers.
500
Humans are considered ______________.
Omnivores. Although some people are vegetarians and chose to not consume meat.
500
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place.
Chloroplasts.
500
A model that shows the amount of energy available in each link of a food chain.
Energy Pyramid.