Food Chains
Roles
Food Web
Energy Pyramid
Vocabulary
100
An organism that creates its own food from sunlight, CO2 , and water.
What is a producer?
100
An organism that consumes only producers.
What is an herbivore?
100
The producers in this food web.
What are grass, shrub, and trees?
100
Organism found at the bottom of an Energy Pyramid that make their own food.
What is a producer?
100
Graphic organizer that shows the flow of energy from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
200
An organism that cannot create its own food.
What is a consumer?
200
An organism that consumes only other consumers.
What is a carnivore?
200
The primary consumers in this food web.
What is the deer, rabbit, mouse and cricket?
200
Herbivores that consume only producers in an Energy Pyramid.
What is a primary consumer?
200
A graphic organizer that shows the levels of energy in a food web.
What is an Energy Pyramid?
300
An organism that consumes only herbivores in an Energy Pyramid.
What is a secondary consumer?
300
An organism that consumes both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
300
The secondary consumers in this food web.
What is a mountain lion, snake, hawk, owl, and frog?
300
Smaller carnivores that consume only other consumers in an Energy Pyramid.
What is a secondary consumer?
300
A graphic organizer that shows the overlapping food chains within a community.
What is a food web?
400
An organism that consumes only producers in an Energy Pyramid.
What is a primary consumer?
400
A carnivore that consumes only dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
400
Organism that can be BOTH a Secondary Consumer AND a Tertiary Consumer in this Food Web.
What is an owl?
400
Larger carnivores that are top predators in an Energy Pyramid.
What is a tertiary consumer?
400
Energy from the Sun to Producers and to Consumers in an ecosystem.
What is the flow of energy in an ecosystem?
500
An organism that consumes only secondary consumers in an Energy Pyramid.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
Major source of energy in an ecosystem.
What is the sun?
500
The tertiary consumer in this food web.
What is an owl?
500
Amount of energy available from bottom to the top of an Energy Pyramid.
What is energy decreases by 10% as each level goes up in an Energy Pyramid?
500
Consumers that break down dead organisms and release nutrients back into the environment.
What are decomposers?