Vocabulary
A system of connected food chains
Food Web
The organelles that make the energy
Mitochondria
The trophic level at the base of the pyramid.
Producers
The arrow represents
flow of energy
create their own food
producer or autotroph
Organism that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore.
The organelle that stores the genetic material
Nucleus
The reason the base of the pyramid is larger, and the reason each level gets smaller.
Energy is lost as you travel up the pyramid.
Plants use the energy from the sun to make food through this process
Photosynthesis
Organisms that eat in order to get energy
consumers
A consumer that eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore.
The organelles that store water and nutrients
vacuole
The percentage of energy that flows to the next level.
10%
What is an apex predator?
The organism at the top of the food web.
Organisms that breakdown organic, dead or decaying matter for energy
decomposers
The jelly-like substance that fills the cell
Cytoplasm
This supplies the energy for the energy pyramid.
The sun
What is the effect of one organism decreasing in population?
The organisms it eats will increase in population size and the organisms that eat it will decrease in population size.
plants, phytoplankton, and algae are examples of
Producers
The organelle found only in plant cells that produces glucose during photosynthesis
Chloroplast
The remainder of the energy is lost as ______ .
heat
List the trophic levels in order from producers to decomposers
producers, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumers, decomposers