Got Energy?
Green plants that make their own food
What is a producer/autotroph?
Animals that eat ONLY plants
What are Herbivores?
A food chain passes this from one trophic level to another
What is energy?
Food webs are made of these
What are several food chains?
Make a food chain with the following: -mouse -snake -seeds -hawk
What is seeds - mouse - snake - hawk?
Organisms that need to eat other organisms in order to survive
What is a consumer/heterotroph?
Animals that eat ONLY other animals
What are carnivores?
A food chain ALWAYS begins with
What is an autotroph/producer?
The next trophic level after a tertiary consumer
What is a quaternary consumer?
Make a food chain with:
wolf, grain, mouse, coyote
What is:
grain, mouse, coyote, wolf
All living things need food to give them ___________
What is energy?
Animals that eat BOTH plants and animals
What are omnivores?
The organism that eats the producer
What is a primary consumer?
All food webs start with
What are producers?
Organic matter from living or dead plants and animals that is used to generate energy
What is biomass?
This percentage of energy is lost at every trophic level of a food chain
What is 90%?
A carnivore that hunts other animals
What is a predator?
The next trophic level after a primary consumer
What is a secondary consumer?
Breaks down waste, and dead organisms and returns the raw materials to the ecosystem
What is a decomposer?
Most energy is lost as
What is heat produced during cellular respiration?
All animals are classified as autotrophs/producers or heterotrophs/consumers
What are heterotrophs/consumers?
An animal that a predator hunts
What is prey?
The next trophic level after a secondary consumer
What is a tertiary consumer?
This living thing would be found at the TOP of a food web
What is a predator/carnivore/omnivore?
Some energy is lost
When an organism dies without being eaten or not digested (bones)?