Producers
Another name for producers
What is autotrophs?
Another name for consumers
What is heterotrophs?
As energy flows from one organism to another it is used for what
What is metabolism?
The first level of the trophic levels
What is producer?
Food chains trace what?
What is a single flow of energy?
Where producers get their energy
What is non-living sources?
Where producers get their energy
What is living or once-living organisms?
As energy flows from organism to organism, it can be converted to what
What is heat?
The second level of the trophic levels?
What is primary consumer?
The levels of nourishment in a food chain
What is trophic levels?
Most producers capture energy using this process
What is photosynthesis?
An example of a heterotroph
What is animals?
The next organism in the food chain only received what percentage of energy from the previous level
What is 10%?
What is secondary consumer?
Shows multiple food chains at once and how they interconnect
What is food web?
An example of a producer
What is plants?
Consumer who gets their energy from plants, and a consumer who gets their energy from meat
What is herbivore and carnivore?
The other 90% is what
What is used or "lost" as heat?
The fourth level of the trophic levels
What is tertiary?
Model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem
What is trophic pyramid?
The other way producers can capture energy
What is chemosynthesis?
Consumer who gets their energy from plants and meat, and consumer who gets their energy from dead materials
What is omnivore and detritivore?
In the trophic levels, which organism will receive the least amount of energy
What is tertiary?
If a producer has 1900 calories, what amount of calories would the secondary consumer get?
What is 19?
Represents the energy available at each trophic level
What is energy pyramid?