Vocabulary
Food Chain
Energy Pyramid
Vocabulary 2
Leftovers
100
Process plants use to make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
100
Show the transfer of energy between organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
100
Energy that is passed to each level
What is 10%
100
Green pigment that enables a plant to absorb sunlight
What is chlorophyll?
100
Examples of these are fungi, bacteria, and earthworms
What are decomposers?
200
Community of organisms and the environment they live in
What is ecosystem?
200
Source of energy for producers
What is the sun?
200
Bottom trophic level of an energy pyramid
What is producers?
200
Consumer that gets its food energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
200
Important by- product of photosynthesis
What is oxygen?
300
Animal that eats only producers
What is herbivore?
300
First level consumers (plant eaters)
What is a/an herbivore?
300
The first trophic level after producers
What is the primary level?
300
Shows the relationship among overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
300
People breathe out this gas that plants take in during photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide?
400
Organism that makes its own food
What is producer?
400
2nd level consumers (meat eaters)
What is a carnivore?
400
The top level of an energy pyramid
What is the tertiary level?
400
Animal that eat both plants and other animals
What is an omnivore?
500
An organism that eats things
What is a consumer?
500
Top level consumer (bears, people)
What is an omnivore?
500
The amount of energy used at each level for life processes
What is 90%
500
Diagram that shows how much food energy is passed to each level in a food chain
What is energy pyramid?
500
Correctly put these organisms in order to make a food chain: mice, seeds, earthworms, hawk
What is seeds, mice, hawk, earthworms?
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