Ecosystems
Types of Organisms
Energy Flow
Misc.
100

What is an organism?

Any living thing

100

What is an organism that can make its own food? 

Producer

100

What do we call an organism that hunts and eats another organism?

Predator

100

What is another word for producer? 

Autotroph

200

What is a resource?

The food, water, shelter, and other things that an organism needs from its environment.

200

What do we call organisms that must eat food for energy?

Consumers

200

What do we call an organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator? 

Prey

200

What is another word for consumer? 

Heterotroph

300

What is a habitat?

An environment that provides the specific resources that and organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. 

300

What are organisms that breakdown dead organisms for food?

Decomposers

300

What type of organism is always first in a food chain or food web?

Producer

300

What type of organism is this? 

Consumer, carnivore

400

What are biotic factors? What are 2 examples?

Living parts of an ecosystem: plants & animals

400

What is a consumer that eats only plants?

Herbivore

400

What do the arrows in food chain, food web or energy pyramid show?

Where the energy is going

400

Is this a food chain or food web?

Food web

500

What are abiotic factors? What are 2 examples?

The nonliving parts of an ecosystem: water, air, sunlight

500

What is a consumer that eats only meat?

Carnivore

500

Which organism is the primary consumer in this food chain? 

The bug

500

What are the producers in this food web?

Carrot, grass, grain

600

What are limiting factors? What are some examples?

Factors that limit or cause a decrease in a population: space, predators, weather conditions, diseases

600

What is a consumer that eats plants and animals?

Omnivore

600

How is a food web different from a food chain?

A food web shows all the food chains

600

How much energy is kept at each level?

10%

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