Vocabulary
Energy Pyramid
Ecosystem
Food Chains
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100

Animals that eat ONLY producers

What is a Herbivore?

100

An energy pyramid looks like what shape

What is a pyramid or triangle?

100
Includes all of the living and non living things in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
100
The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
100
An animal that hunts another animal
What is a predator?
200

Animals that eat other animals

What is a carnivore or predator?

200
a diagram that shows the amount of energy at each level of the ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid?
200
Which of the following is a living organism: a tree or a piece of paper?
What is a tree?
200

Another name for an animal that eats plants or other animals.

What is consumer or omnivore?

200
organisms that are eaten by other animals
What is prey?
300
Animals that eat both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
300
This at the bottom level of a energy pyramid
What is a producer?
300

Bacteria and mushrooms are a form of a ___________

What is a decomposer?

300

Food chains ultimately start with energy from the ____.

What is the sun?

300

The Law of Conservation of energy states that energy is not created or ___________.

What is destroyed?

400
The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
400

What is greater (lower in the triangle) in the energy pyramid... producer or carnivore?

What is a producer?

400
a network of food chains that have some links in common
What is a food web?
400
Organisms that use the sun's energy to make sugar and oxygen.
What is producer?
400
This breaks down dead or decaying plant and animal material.
What is a decomposer?
500
Plants use energy from the sun to produce food through the process of ____________.
What is photosynthesis?
500

In an energy pyramid about 90% of the energy at a level is used and ______ is stored in the organism and passed up to the next level.

What is 10%?

500

If all the producers where removed from the ecosystem what would happen to the consumers?

What is the consumers will die?

500
The energy in a food chain starts with this.
What is the Sun?
500
these consumers eat leftover bodies after they have started to rot.
What is a scavenger?
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