Basics
How much energy is passed up to the next level of the energy pyramid?
What is only 10%?
Herbivores and Heterotrophs
What are Primary Consumers?
Where do producers get their energy from and how do they make their food?
What is the sun and through photosynthesis?
_______ levels is the feeding position in a food chain or energy pyramid that an organism occupies based on what it needs.
What is trophic?
A rattle snake eats not only bugs that eat plants, but also frogs that eat bugs. What trophic level would it occupy?
What are Tertiary Consumers?
A graphic representation of this system is called an _____ _____
What is an energy pyramid?
Gets energy from the sun, make their own food, and are autotrophs,
What are Producers?
What part of the food chain can take energy from each level of the pyramid and break the matter down to be reused?
What are Decomposers?
Energy _________ from lower to higher trophic levels.
What is decreases?
What would a rabbit, sheep, or cow be considered on the trophic levels?
What is a Primary Consumer?
The amount of energy passed on/transferred to the next trophic level.
What is 10%?
Cannot produce their own food, they eat other things like plants and animals.
What are Consumers?
Which way does energy move through the trophic levels of the energy pyramid?
What is from the bottom to the top?
The Biomass, (living or organic matter) decreases from _____ to higher trophic levels.
Lower
What trophic level would a wildflower be on?
What are producers?
Tertiary consumer stands for....
What is a third-level consumer?
Eats primary consumers and each other. Carnivores and heterotrophs.
What is Secondary and Tertiary?
The name for the consumer that is at the top of the pyramid and consumes all of the other consumers ?
What is an Apex Predator?
Energy made by plants through _____ is transferred to an _____
What is photosynthesis and animal?
What type of top predator would a Lion be called?
What is an Apex Predator.
The shape of the pyramid shows how the amount of useful _____ that enters each level decreases as it is used by the o_________ in that level.
What is energy and organisms?
What is the Garbage man of ecosystems, active at each level of the pyramid, and breaks down dead ecosystems and it returns its nutrients back to the environment.
What are Decomposers?
_________ at the top of the pyramid have much less energy to support them. That is why they have less numbers. Eventually the amount of useful energy left ______ support another level.
What is Consumers, and cannot?
A predator on the Energy Pyramid eats other consumers call ______.
What are prey.
A fox eats rabbits and squirrels. What level of the energy pyramid would it be on?
What are Secondary Consumers?