Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Biogeochemical
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

Name the biogeochemical cycle that contains precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, condensation  

water cycle 

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

Name the biogeochemical cycle that contains photosynthesis and cellular respiration   

carbon oxygen cycle 

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?
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 roles: tadpole, algae, heron. Which is a producer, first level consumer and second level consumer. 

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 eat dead organisms. What am I?

What is a detritivore?

500
I break down waste and dead organisms. What am I?
What is a decomposer?
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