Producers
Consumers
Food Chain
Food Webs & Energy Pyramids
Electromagnetic Spectrum
100
Where do plants get their energy from?
The Sun
100
What do you call an organism that only eats plants?
Herbivore
100

What do the arrows in the food chain represent?

The flow/direction/path of energy in the food web.
100

How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next?

10%

100

This acronym is used to remember the order of colors on the visible spectrum.

What is ROY G. BIV

200

What do producers do to get food?

Photosynthesis

200

A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called what?

Omnivore

200

Grass → Grasshopper → Shrew → Hawk

Which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away?

Grasshopper

200

What happens to the rest of the energy that is not transferred from trophic level to trophic level?

It gets lost as heat.

200

This electromagnetic is used daily with cellphones, wifi, and microwave ovens.

What is Microwaves.

300

Name 3 things that a producer needs to make its own food. (Hint: Remember the equation for photosynthesis)

Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, and Water

300

When consumers breathe out what type of gas do they produce?

Carbon Dioxide

300

Grass → Zebra → Hyena →  Lion

What would likely happen to the lion if the zebra population decreased? 

The lion population will decrease.

300
What does a food web show?

Multiple food chains and/or all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.

300

What might your body do to protect you against too much Ultraviolet Radiation.

Produce more melanin/Darken Skin/Give you a tan

400

Juan wants to grow a sunflower. He makes sure that the plant has the following items in order to grow: sunlight, water, other organisms, and air. Which of these items does the plant NOT need in order to grow?

other organisms

400

How do consumers get their energy?

They eat other organisms.

400

Grass →  Mouse → Snake → Owl

Identify the tertiary consumer.

Owl

400

Which type of organism on the food web has all of the arrows pointing towards it?

Decomposer

400

This color has a wavelength of about 750nm.

What is Red?

500

What do producers release that helps consumers breathe?

Oxygen

500

Identify the secondary consumer in this food chain:

Grass -> Cricket -> Shrew -> Hawk

Shrew

500
In the food chain Tree → Deer →Mountain Lion what would be the result if the tree population decreased due to a forest fire?
The deer and mountain lion populations would decrease
500

How much energy is available in the 4th trophic level is there is 475,000 kCal available in the first?

475 kCal

500

Name 3 uses of invisible radiation.

Cook, talk on phone, wifi, radio, etc.

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