Vocabulary
A producer or an organism that is able to make its own food.
Autotroph
What do ALL food chains and webs start with?
Producers
Consider this food chain: grass=> grasshopper=> mouse => snake Which organism is an herbivore?
Grasshopper
An organism that eats only plants.
Herbivore
How much energy is available to the next step of the food chain?
10%
A consumer or an organism that must eat to gain energy.
Heterotroph
What is passed down a food chain/web?
Energy or nutrients or matter
What is the largest contributor to the loss of biodiversity?
Habitat Fragmentation
An organism that eats only meat
Carnivore
Where does all energy on Earth come from?
The Sun
Represents one path that energy can travel through in an ecosystem
Food Chain
What type of living thing would be found at the TOP of a food web?
Predator or omnivore or carnivore
What part of HIPOC is demonstrated by the following example? "Hunting deer faster than they can naturally reproduce."
Overexploitation
An organism that recycles dead and organic matter.
Decomposer
What doo all of these living things have in common? --> Deer, Rabbit, Squirrel
They are herbivores.
A model that shows all the different ways that energy can travel in an ecosystem.
Food Web
The path by which energy passes from one living thing to another.
Food Chain
What does HIPOC stand for?
Habitat fragmentation, Invasive Species, Pollution, Overexploitation, and Climate Change.
An organism that eats plants and animals
Omnivore
How do we benefit from biodiversity?
Answers will vary.
The position of an organism on a food chain or web.
Trophic Level
Structure that shows how ALL the species in a community get their energy.
Food Web
Name one of the forms of pollution and provide an example.
Air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, light pollution, and noise pollution. Examples will vary.
An animal that feeds of decaying meat or plant matter
Scavenger/Detritivore
What is something that we can do to help preserve the biodiversity of species on earth?
Answers will vary.