Food Chains
Roles
Food Web
Energy Pyramid
Vocabulary
100
An organism that creates their own food.
producer or autotroph
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
Bees get nectar to make honey (food), and flowers are pollinated, allowing them to reproduce. Identify the relationship between bees and flowers.
Mutualism
200
An organism that cannot create its own food.
Consumer or Heterotroph
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
Hermit crabs use the discarded shells of dead snails for protection. The snail is already deceased, so it is not affected by the crab using its shell. Identify the relationship between the hermit crab and shell.
Commensalism
300
This type of consumer feeds on 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
The maximum population of a species an ecosystem can support
Carrying Capacity
400
This type of organism feeds on producers.
Primary Consumer
Also acceptable: herbivore
400
An organism that plays an important role in maintaining the balance of an ecosystem
Keystone Species
400
Give an example of a decomposer in this food web.
Fungi or Bacteria
400
What is the 10% Rule?
Only 10% of the energy in one trophic level is passed on to the next trophic level.
400
An organism that is "more equal" than others in an ecosystem
Keystone Species
500
An organism that feeds on secondary consumers.
Tertiary Consumer
500
Daily Double! This question is worth double the points.
Another name for consumers
What is a heterotroph?
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