Key Terms
Consumers
Photosynthesis
Energy Flow
Miscellaneous
100
This is a diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level in the feeding order.
What is an energy pyramid?
100
These are animals that only eat other animals to get energy.
What are carnivores?
100
This is where a plant gets energy to make its own food.
What is the sun?
100
This very simple type of drawing shows a feeding order as a straight line (tree-->termite-->shrew-->owl).
What is a food chain?
100
Name the three energy roles that organisms fill in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
200
This is an organism that uses sunlight to make food (sugar).
What is a producer?
200
This is an organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
200
This is the type of food that plants make during photosynthesis.
What is sugar?
200
This type of drawing is like a food chain, but it shows how MUCH energy is at each level. (Hint: it looks like a triangle.)
What is an energy pyramid?
200
Why is a food web a more realistic way of portraying an ecosystem than is a food chain?
What is : most organisms are parts of overlapping food chains.
300
This is an organism that cannot make its own food. Eats other organisms for food.
What is a consumer?
300
These are animals that eat both plants and animals to get energy.
What are omnivores?
300
This is the type of gas that plants give off during photosynthesis. (Hint: we NEED it).
What is oxygen?
300
This type of drawing shows all the different feeding relationships in an ecosystem. It can look confusing!
What is a food web?
300
What happens to the amount of energy available as you move up an energy pyramid?
What is: The energy decreases because it is used by the organisms beneath.
400
This is a comination of all the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
400
These are animals who only eat plant parts to get energy.
What are herbivores?
400
This is the liquid that plants need to make food during photosynthesis.
What is water (H2O)?
400
When we draw food chains, food webs, or energy pyramids, we always draw the arrows going in this direction.
What is from the food to the animal that eats it, or in the direction that the energy is moving?
400
At which level of the energy pyramid is the least energy available?
What is the top level.
500
This is the study of the relationships between living and nonliving things in an ecosystem.
What is ecology?
500
This is an animal that looks for and feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
500
This is the gas that plants use to make food during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
This is why there is so much more energy at the bottom of an energy pyramid than there is at the top.
What is because most energy at each level gets used up by the living things before they get eaten?
500
In our Oh, Deer! lab activity, this is what happened to our deer when they did not find the food, water, and shelter that they needed.
What is they died and became part of the ecosystem again?
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