Producers
Producers create energy from this source.
What is the sun?
This is how consumers get their energy.
What is consuming/eating other organisms?
This type of consumer eats plants (producers) only.
Give an example.
What is an herbivore?
Cows, sheep, zebra, giraffe, Rhinoceros
This type of pyramid shows the number of organisms at each level.
What is a pyramid of numbers?
This type of organism is always the start of a food chain or web.
What is a producer?
Give 2 examples of a producer.
What is plants and algae?
Give an example of a consumer.
What is __________________?
This type of consumer eats meat only.
Give an example.
What is a carnivore?
Lions, Tigers, Cheetahs, Eagles, Sharks etc
This type of pyramid shows how much energy is available at each trophic level.
What is an energy pyramid?
The arrows of a food chain or web always point in this direction.
What is the direction of energy flow. (corn--->cow)
This is where producers are found on a food chain.
What is the beginning?
This is where consumers are found on a food chain.
What is after producers/the end?
This type of consumer eats both plants and meat.
Give an example.
What is an omnivore?
Pigs, humans, rats, bears, hippopotamus
This is what happens to numbers, energy, and biomass as you get higher up the pyramid.
What is decreases?
The first consumer in a food chain is also called this.
What is primary consumer.
The substance which allows plants to photosynthesise.
What is chlorophyll?
This consumer eats a secondary consumer.
What is a tertiary (third level) consumer?
Predator
This type of consumer breaks down dead organisms and dead matter.
Give an example.
What is a decomposer?
Fungi, bacteria
This pyramid shows the amount of "living tissue" at each tropic level.
What is a biomass pyramid?
This is another term for the third level consumer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
This is another term for a producer.
What is an autotroph?
This is another word for a consumer.
What is a heterotroph?
This type of consumer eats organisms that are already dead.
Give an example.
What is a Scavenger?
Vultures, Hyenas, Jackals
This type of organism is always at the base (first trophic level) of any energy pyramid.
What is a producer?
A human who eats a cow which eat corn is an example of which level consumer?
What is a secondary consumer?