Energy Pyramid
At the bottom of the energy pyramid
producer
An organism that makes its own food
What is a producer
An organism that has to search for its own food
What is a consumer
Humans are
Consumers or omnivores
At the top of the energy pyramid
Consumer
Where is a producer located on the energy pyramid
What is at the bottom
A consumer that only eats plants
What is a herbivore
The source of all energy in an ecosystem
The sun
How many total levels are usually in an energy pyramid
Four or five
Producers use what to make food
What is the sun's energy
A consumer that only eats meat
What is a carnivore
Best describes grasses, shrubs, and trees
Producers
Energy levels at the top of the food chain verses the bottom
Less than
Population size for a producer verses a consumer
What is larger
A consumer that eats both plants and animals
What is an onmivore
What is the better model to show how energy flows in the real world? (Food Web or Food Chain)
Food Web
How much energy is lost every time it moves to a new level on the pyramid
90 percent
What is the process that producers do to get energy?
What is photosynthesis.
Where a consumer is found on the energy pyramid
What is everywhere but the bottom
Interaction between living and non-living things
Ecosystem