Food Chains
Roles
Food Web
Energy Pyramid
Vocabulary
100
An organism that creates their own food from light.
What is a producer?
100
An organism that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
100
Give an example of a producer in this web.
What are grass, shrub, and trees?
100
The type of organism found at the bottom of the energy pyramid.
What is a producer?
100
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 eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
200
Give an example of a primary consumer in this food web.
What is the squirrel, grasshopper, rabbit, and deer?
200
The type of organism found at the second level of the energy pyramid.
What is a primary consumer?
200
A pyramid that shows how population and energy decreases as it flows up the food chain.
What is the energy pyramid?
300
An organism that feeds off of herbivores.
What is a secondary consumer? Also acceptable is: What is a carnivore?
300
Daily Double! This question is worth double the points.
An organism that eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
300
Give an example of a secondary consumer in this food web.
What is a hawk, shrew, snake, bird, and mountain lion?
300
The type of organism found on the third level of the energy pyramid.
What is a secondary consumer?
300
A visual that represents the interconnected flows of energy within a community.
What is a food web?
400
An organism that feeds off of producers.
What is a primary consumer?
400
An organism that eats and breaks down dead material.
What is a decomposer?
400
Give an example of a decomposer in this food web.
What are fungi and bacteria?
400
The type of organism found on the top level of the energy pyramid.
What is a tertiary consumer?
400
The process producers use to create energy from light, water, oxygen, and nutrients.
What is photosynthesis?
500
An organism that feeds on secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
A predator that has no natural predators of its own.
What is an apex predator?
500
Give an example of a tertiary consumer in this food web.
What is a hawk, snake, and mountain lion?
500
Energy does this as it goes up the energy pyramid.
What is decreases?
500
The two apex predators in this food web.
What are the mountain lion and hawk?