An organism that makes its own food. Also called an autotroph.
What is a producer?
It is the beginning of almost all food chains.
What is the sun?
This diagram is an example.
What is a food web?
It is the trophic level in which producers are located.
What is the first trophic level?
It is the term that refers to the living things in an ecosystem. x2
What is biotic?
An organism that eats other organisms. Also called a heterotroph.
What is a consumer?
It is the tertiary consumer in the diagram.
What is a snake?
This diagram is made up of more than one of these.
What are food chains?
They are the type of organisms that have the most biodiversity on the energy pyramid.
What are the producers?
It is the term that refers to the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
A consumer that eats producers. An herbivore or first order consumer.
What is a primary consumer?
It is the plant in the diagram.
What is a producer?
It is one of three herbivores in this diagram. x3
what is zooplankton, crab, or krill?
It is the percentage of energy available in each trophic level.
What is 10%?
It is how complexity of a food web is determined.
What is the number of connections?
A carnivore. Also called a third order consumer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
A food chain shows the flow of this in an ecosystem.
What is energy?
It is the whale that receives the least amount of energy in this diagram.
What is the killer whale?
It is the amount of energy in the top trophic level if the producers contained 10,000 units of energy.
What is 1?
What is an aboitic factor?
A consumer that breaks down dead organisms and wastes and returns nutrients to the ecosystem. Bacteria and fungi are examples. x2
What is a decomposer?
It is the top predator in this diagram.
What is the snake?
It is the animal that would be the most impacted if the krill population dropped.
What is the blue whale?
It is the trophic level that contains herbivores.
What is the second trophic level?
It is the process that plants use to store the energy of the sun in food.
What is photosynthesis?