Vocabulary
what is an organism that eats only animals called?
What is a carnivore?
The ultimate energy source for all life on Earth
What is the sun?
This is at the bottom of every energy pyramid.
What is the producer?
This is the food making process for plants.
What is photosynthesis?
What is at the start of all food webs?
What are producers (or the sun)?
Organism that eats plants only
What is a herbivore?
This is the first organism in all food chains
What is producers?
This is the amount of energy passed from one level to the next.
What is 10%?
A diagram that shows the movement of energy through an ecosystem
What is food chain?
A food web is a collection of all the different ___________ ____________ in a certain area.
What are food chains?
Organisms that eats plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The arrows in a food chain represent this
What is the direction the energy flows?
How much energy does each organism in an energy pyramid use?
What is 90%?
This organism eats a secondary consumers leftovers.
What is a scavenger?
This group receives the most energy from the sun in a food web
What is the producers?
The hunter or an organism that hunts other organisms for food.
What is a predator?
Primary consumers eat this
What are producers?
Where is the least amount of available energy in an energy pyramid.
What is at the top?
This is overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
A group that often is omitted or not included in food webs
What are decomposers?
What is the animal that is eaten by the predator?
The prey
Secondary consumers eat this
What are primary consumers or animals that ate plants?
This returns nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
This organism is at the top of every feeding level.
What is a human?
The reason why Top carnivores or predators are important in food webs
What is they keep other populations from growing too large?