Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Key Concepts part 2
100

These organisms are producers

What are plants?

100

Double Jeopardy: I eat only plants. What am I?

What is a herbivore

100

Shows transferred energy step by step

What is a food chain.

100

How much energy is lost as heat as we move up each trophic levels?

What is 90%

100

Producers are found here on the energy pyramid.


First trophic level/trophic level one

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

A Network of food chains in an ecosystem.

What is food web.

200

How do consumers get energy?

What is by consuming/eating.

200

Double Jepoardy: Name a food chain that includes 4 trophic levels.

Answers may vary.

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

 a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic level to another in a food web.

What is an energy pyramid.

300

Double Jeopardy: How much energy is transferred from one organism when it eats another?

What is 10 percent.

300

The name of the process that involves using the Sun's energy to make sugar. 

What is Photosynthesis

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

I eat primary consumers?

What is secondary consumer?

400

Double Jeopardy: 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

Double Jepoardy: The ingredients for Photosynthesis

What are Sunlight, Water, and Carbon Dioxide

500

The three types of organisms in an ecosystem? 

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

The organisms that receive 0.1% of the energy from producers.

What are Tertiary Consumers

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