VOCABULARY
FOOD WEBS
ORGANISMS
ENERGY
MISCELLANEOUS
100
A sequence of organisms that shows who eats who in a linear manner.
What is a food chain?
100
Primary consumers eat __________________.
What are producers?
100
Type of organism that has a rumen.
What is a ruminent?
100
Organisms found at the bottom of the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
100
Name an herbivore.
What is rabbit, mouse, grasshopper, cow, moose, etc?
200
An organism that gets it energy from the sun.
What is a producer?
200
Tertiary consumers eat _______________ and _______________.
What are carnivores and omnivores?
200
Organisms that might eat grasses and seeds.
What are herbivores?
200
Organisms found at the top of an energy pyramid.
What are tertiary consumers?
200
Turkey vultures are scavengers that only eat this type of food.
What is carrion?
300
An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
300
Organisms that eat herbivores.
What are secondary consumers?
300
A type of organism that is responsible for recycling dead plants and animals into nutrients that are released back into the soil, air, and water.
What are decomposers?
300
The most energy can be found at this level of the energy pyramid.
What is the bottom level?
300
A moose is a large ruminant that gets its energy from these.
What are plants?
400
An organism that eats both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
400
Without it there would be no food available for humans.
What is the sun?
400
An example of this type of organism is a whale shark that eats phytoplankton and zooplankton.
What is an omnivore?
400
True/False. There is more energy available at the top of the energy pyramid.
What is false?
400
Food webs are made of many of these.
What are food chains?
500
A graphical model of energy flow in an ecosystem.
What is a Pyramid of Energy?
500
The top of the food chain.
What is a tertiary consumer?
500
Plants.
What are producers?
500
The percentage of energy available to each consecutive level on the energy pyramid.
What is 10%?
500
Most energy in the energy pyramid is used by this.
What is metabolic and other life functions?
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