Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Human Body Review
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

Lungs, trachea, nose, and mouth

These are part of the respiratory system

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

Brain and spinal cord

These are part of your nervous system

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
Double Jeopardy: How much energy is transferred from one organism to another when feeding on one another?
What is 10 percent.
300

The three types of muscles are skeletal, smooth and cardiac

True

400
List two major groups of decomposers.
What is bacteria and fungi.
400
I eat only insects. What am I?
What is an insectivore?
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: tadpole, algae, heron.
What is algae: producer Tadpole: herbivore/first level consumer Heron: consumer/ carnivore/ second level consumer
400

Protects your body from parasites, viruses, bacteria, and germs

The immune system

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
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.
500

Your body's reaction to danger

Fight or flight

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