Food Chains
Roles
Food Web
Energy Pyramid
Vocabulary
100
An organism that creates their own food.
What is a producer?
100
An organism that eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
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
Another name for plants/producers.
What is a autotroph?
200
Give an example of a primary consumer in this food web.
What is the squirrel, grasshopper, rabbit, and deer?
200
The energy level that has the most energy?
What is trophic level 1?
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
A predator that has no natural predators of its own
APEX PREDATOR
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?
Also acceptable: herbivore
400
Daily Double! This question is worth double the points.
Another name for consumers
What is a heterotroph?
400
Give an example of a decomposer in this food web.
What are fungi and bacteria?
400
Energy does this as it goes up the energy pyramid.
What is decreases?
400
An organism that is "more equal" than others in an ecosystem
Keystone Species
500
An organism that feeds on secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
An organism that eats and breaks down dead material.
What is a decomposer?
500
Give an example of a tertiary consumer in this food web.
What is a hawk, snake, and mountain lion?
500
If the autotroph trophic level has 3500 kCal of energy, how much energy does the tertiary consumer trophic level have?
3.5 kCal
500
What is the vocabulary term that describes how removing a keystone species can have multiple affects to an ecosystem?
Trophic Cascade