Food Chains
The source of all energy in terrestrial food chains.
What is the sun?
There are 6 of these: Archaea, Bacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
What are kingdoms?
Another name for an autotroph.
What is a producer?
Multicellular, eukaryotic heterotrophs that move around on their own.
What is animalia?
What is plantae?
What is a primary consumer?
The smallest, most specific taxonomic rank.
What is species?
The amount of energy that gets used for growth and bodily function.
Mostly decomposers.
What are fungi?
Something that changes about an organism to better help it survive in an environment.
What is an adaptation?
The organism at the top of every food chain.
What is an apex predator?
The highest, broadest taxonomic rank.
What is domain?
A diagram showing how energy decreases as you move up trophic levels.
Unicellular, prokaryotes. They are very common and tend to make us sick.
What is bacteria?
Another name for a heterotroph.
What is a consumer?
Organisms that eat the waste and dead matter of other living things.
What is a detritivore?
What is taxonomic key?
OR
What is a dichotomous key?
A diagram showing how the population usually increases as you move up trophic levels.
What is a pyramid of numbers?
The oldest known living organisms.
What is archaea?
Each level in a food chain.
What is a trophic level?
What is chemosynthesis?
The system of using an organism's genus and species to give it a two-part scientific name.
Consider this food chain:
Lily => Butterfly => Swallow => Hawk
This is how many calories the hawk will get if the butterfly consumes 1000 calories.
What is 10 calories?
The kingdom for all of the difficult-to-sort eukaryotes.
What is protista?
The most common apex predator in any food chain.
What are humans?