Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts
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.
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 consumers obtain energy?

What is by consuming/eating.

300
True or False. Producers are the source of all the food in an ecosystem.
What is True.
300

I eat both meat and plants. 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

Double Jeopardy: What percent of energy is transferred from one organism to another when feeding on one another?

What is 10 percent.

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

I eat dead organisms. What am I?

What is a scavenger?

400
Which diagram is a more realistic portrayal of how an ecosystem transfers energy: food web or food chain? Explain.
What is food web.
400

Identify the energy roles of the following organisms in a pond ecosystem. algae -> tadpole -> heron.

What is (algae: producer) (Tadpole: herbivore/first level consumer) (Heron: consumer/ carnivore/ second level consumer)

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

I live and feed off of dead organisms. What am I?

What is a saprophyte?

500
I break down waste and dead organisms. What am I?
What is a decomposer?
500
Why is the pyramid shape useful for showing the energy available at each level of a food web?
answers may vary.
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