Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Key Concepts Pt.2
100
What types of organisms are producers?
What are plants?
100
I eat only plants. What am I?
What is a herbivore
100
a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a food chain.
100
Quickly create a 3 link food chain.
answers may vary.
100

Which is a more realistic depiction of an ecosystem: a food web or a food chain? Explain.

What is a food web.

200
True or False? Energy enters all ecosystems as sunlight.
What is True.
200
I eat only meat. What am I?
What is a Carnivore?
200
many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is food web.
200
How do organisms obtain energy?
What is by consuming/eating.
200

Mice, hawks, grasses, and snakes are all part of a food chain. Which living thing is at the beginning of this food chain?

What is the grasses (producer).

300
True or False. Producers are the source of all the food in an ecosystem.
What is True.
300
I eat both meat and animals. What am I?
What is an omnivore?
300
Double Jeopardy: a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is an energy pyramid.
300

What is the primary source of ALL energy for ALL living things?

What is the sun?

300
What is the correct order of the following species in a food chain:

grasshopper, sun, grass, hawk, snake.

What is: sun, grass, grasshopper, snake, hawk.

400
List two major groups of decomposers.
What is bacteria and fungi.
400

I break down organic material into the soil, providing nutrients for new life to form. What am I?

What is a decomposer?

400

The process in which humans practice decaying organic matter used to fertilize the soil.

What is composting?

400
Identify the energy roles of the following organisms in a pond ecosystem: tadpole, algae, heron.
What is algae: producer Tadpole: herbivore/first level consumer Heron: consumer/ carnivore/ second level consumer
400

Why is decomposition an important part of the food cycle?

Answers may vary:

Decomposition is needed to recycle dead remains back to the soil, to provide nutrients for new life.

500
What are the three energy roles all organisms in the ecosystem fit into?
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.
500

I eat dead organisms but do not bring nutrients back to the earth. What am I?

What is a scavenger?

500

The process through which plants make their own food.

What is photosynthesis?

500

If a primary consumer dies out, what might happen to a secondary consumer in a food chain?

What is: the secondary consumer would have to ADAPT and find a new primary consumer to eat.

500

Why might a species die out?

Answers may vary:

global warming, deforestation, overfishing/overhunting, overharvesting, pollution, etc.

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