Vocabulary
Food Chain
Food Web
Energy Pyramid
Ecosystem Grab Bag
Ecology
Biology Gumball Machine
100
An organism that makes its own food. Also called an autotroph.
What is a producer?
100
It is the beginning of almost all food chains. 
What is the sun?
100
This diagram is an example. 
What is a food web?
100
It is the trophic level in which producers are located.
What is the first trophic level?
100
It is a measure of the number of different species in an ecosystem.
What is species richness?
100
Precipitation is an example of this type of factor.
What is an aboitic factor?
100
It is the gas produced during photosynthesis. x5
What is oxygen?
200
An organism that eats other organisms. Also called a heterotroph.
What is a consumer?
200
It is the tertiary consumer in the diagram.
What is a snake?
200
This diagram is made up of more than one of these.
What are food chains?
200
They are the type of organisms that have the most biodiversity on the energy pyramid. 
What are the producers?
200
It is the size of each population in an ecosystem. x5
What is relative abundance?
200
It is a collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonliving environment.
What is an ecosystem?
200
A lion eats a deer, what is the lion called
What is a predator/consumer
300
A consumer that eats producers. An herbivore or first order consumer.
What is a primary consumer?
300
It is the plant in the diagram.
What is a producer?
300
It is one of three herbivores in this diagram. x3
what is zooplankton, crab, or krill?
300
It is the percentage of energy available in each trophic level.
What is 10%?
300
It is how complexity of a food web is determined.
What is the number of connections?
300
Bacteria is an example of this type of factor in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
300
If the natural predators in an ecosystem die out what likely happens to the population of their prey
What is increase
400
A carnivore. Also called a third order consumer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
400
A food chain shows the flow of this in an ecosystem.
What is energy?
400
It is the whale that receives the least amount of energy in this diagram.
What is the killer whale?
400
It is the amount of energy in the top trophic level if the producers contained 10,000 units
of energy.
What is 1?
400
It is the term that refers to the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
400
It is a group of organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
400
He is the man who developed the theory of natural selection. x2
Who is Charles Darwin?
500
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?
500
It is the top predator in this diagram.
What is the snake?
500
It is the animal that would be the most impacted if the krill population dropped.
What is the blue whale?
500
It is the trophic level that contains herbivores. 
What is the second trophic level?
500
It is the term that refers to the living things in an ecosystem. x2
What is biotic?
500
It is the process that plants use to store the energy of the sun in food.
What is photosynthesis?
500
Who does Mr Fabian like better
K flock or D thang?
What is none of them?