Energy Roles
What am I?
Vocabulary
Energy Pyramid
100
What types of organisms are producers?
What are plants?
100
I eat only plants. What am I?
What is a herbivore
100
A single, linear path showing the flow of energy from the Sun to a producer and through different levels of consumers
What is a food chain.
100
What trophic level receives the most amount of energy?
What is primary producers?
200
What is the original source of energy to all ecosystems
What is the Sun.
200
I eat only meat. What am I?
What is a Carnivore?
200
Overlapping food chains with different pathways to show the flow of energy in an ecosystem
What is food web.
200
The energy is transferred to each trophic level and some of the energy is transformed into ______
What is heat.
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 feeding level to another in a food web.
What is an energy pyramid.
300
Double Jeopardy: How much energy is transferred from producer to primary consumer? (What is the percentage of energy at the primary consumer?)
What is 10 percent.
400
List two kingdoms of decomposers.
What is bacteria and fungi.
400
I provide nutrients for producers.
What is a decomposer?
400
Which diagram is a more realistic portrayal of how an ecosystem transfers energy: food web or food chain?
What is food web.
400
Where does the tertiary consumer receive a majority if not all of their energy?
The secondary consumer (carnivores)
500
What are the three energy roles all organisms in the ecosystem fit into?
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.
500
I am a consumer and I get the least amount of energy from the Sun.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
The position an organism occupies on the food web
What is trophic level?
500
If the robin population would decrease how would that effect the ecosystem?
Increase in plant seeds, less eagles and snakes because less energy available to consume