PATH OF ENERGY
FOOD CHAIN/WEB
PRODUCERS
CONSUMERS
DECOMPOSERS
100
From the food we eat.
What do we get our energy from?
100
Shows how each living thing gets it food
What is a food chain
100
All plants
What are producers?
100
Consumers
What are animals?
100
Microorganisms that feed on decaying matter.
What are decomposers?
200
Sun-Producers-Herbivores-Carnivores-Omnivores-Decomposers
What is the order in which energy flows in an ecosystem?
200
Five
What is the most links that a food chain/web can have?
200
The sun
Where do producers get their energy from to make sugars?
200
They cannot make their own food- they eat plants & other animals
Why are animals called consumers?
200
Bacteria and fungi
What are two types of decomposers?
300
This is the ability to cause change. Organisms need this to grow and develop.
What is energy?
300
The animal at the end of the food chain will not get enough food to stay alive.
What is the reason there cannot be too many links in a single food chain?
300
Photosynthesis
What is the process called in which plants change energy from the sun to make sugar?
300
Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
What are the three groups of consumers?
300
All the living and nonliving things in an environment and their interactions.
What is an ecosystem?
400
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated and usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
To meet their food and energy requirements.
Why are most animals part of more than one food chain and eat more than one kind of food?
400
10%
What is the percentage of energy passed from the producers to the next level of consumers in an energy pyramid?
400
Herbivores
What are animals called that eat only plants?
400
Examples of decomposers
What is earthworms and bacteria?
500
90%
What is the % of energy lost as it moves from producers to primary consumers to secondary consumers?
500
A food web.
What does these interconnected food chains form?
500
The organisms will move to another location
What will happen if the producer is removed from the food chain?
500
Carnivores
What are animals called that eat other animals?
500
A population
What is a group of all the same kind of organisms in an ecosystem called?
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