Food Chains and Food Webs
A diagram that shows one single path of energy moving from organism to organism.
food chain
Where does the word "Autotroph" get its meaning?
Auto means self. Troph means feeding.
In a food chain diagram, arrows should point toward the organism that…
get the energy
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The term that means energy is passed from one organism/thing to another.
Transmitted
The main starting source of energy for most ecosystems.
The sun
A consumer that eats a secondary consumer
Tertiary consumer
If decomposers disappeared, what key resource would eventually become limited for producers?
Nutrients
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Making food using chemical energy instead of sunlight.
Chemosynthesis
In a food chain, arrows point toward the organism that is __________
getting the energy next
Is a deer eating grass a producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, or tertiary consumer?
Primary consumer
If primary consumers suddenly drop, what happens to producer populations in the short term?
Producers increase
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Organisms that must get their energy from other organisms.
Heterotrophs
Which of these are a secondary consumer? Tree, caterpillar, small bird, Hawk
Small bird
This kind of consumer eats both plants and animals
Omnivores
What would happen to primary consumers if there were suddenly more carnivores in an ecosystem.
they would decrease in population
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A decomposer that eats waste instead of dead things.
Detritivore