Vocab
This is the name for animals that only eat plants
What is an herbivore?
This is the main source of all energy on earth
What is the sun?
The base of a trophic pyramid is comprised of these types of species
What are producers?
This is the prefix that means life
What is bio?
These are the main Heights High School logo colors.
What is black and red?
This is the more scientific term that also means producers
What is autotroph
This is the approximate percentage of energy that gets transferred up each level of the trophic pyramid.
What is 10%?
This is the term for the second level in a trophic pyramid.
What are primary consumers?
This is a prefix that means self or by itself
What is auto?
This is the name of Heights High School's athletic teams.
What are the Falcons?
This is the more scientific term that also means consumers
What is heterotroph
This is the amount of energy that would be available at the primary consumer level if there were 750,000 kcal available at the producer level.
What is 75,000?
This is the role a moose would play in a food web
What is a primary consumer?
This is a suffix that means nutrition
What is troph?
This is the name of the biggest shark that ever lived
What is a megalodon?
This is the term for the dry weight of tissue and other organic matter found in a specific ecosystem
What is biomass?
This is the approximate amount of energy that would be available at the producer level if the secondary consumer level had 9,000 kcal available.
What is 900,000 kcal?
This is the term for the very top animals in a food web or food chain.
What is apex predator?
This is the prefix that means with or together
What is Con?
This is the name of a popular television wildlife documentary host that had an Australian accent.
Who is Steve Irwin?
This is the term for the indirect impact of predators on lower trophic levels in a food web
What is a trophic cascade?
This is the amount of energy available at the quaternary level in a trophic pyramid if there are 834,000 kcal available at the primary consumer level
What is 834?
This is the name for the category of species that you can find at every level of a trophic pyramid
What are decomposers?
This is the prefix that means not or without
What is a-?
This is the full last name of Heights High School's principal
What is Filippi?