Vocabulary
Energy Pyramid
Ecosystem
Food Chains
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100
Animals that eat producers
What is a Herbivore?
100

An energy pyramid looks like what shape

What is a 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?
200
a diagram that shows the amount of energy at each level of the ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid?
200

Living organisms in their environment.

What is a Biotic?

200

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

What is omnivore?

200
organisms that are eaten by other animals
What is prey?
300

A predator at the top of a food chain

What is Apex Predator?

300
This at the bottom level of a energy pyramid
What is a producer?
300
Bacteria is a form of a ___________
What is a decomposer?
300
An organism that completes this food chain : ________--rabbit----hawk
What is grass?
300

The place where organisms live.

What is the habitat?

400
The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
400
What is greater 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 transferred from one level to the next is released as ______.

What is heat and waste?

500
If all the producers where removed from the ecosystem what would happen to the consumers?
What is (answers may vary)
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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