Energy and Life
Photosynthetic organisms who synthesize food (carbohydrates) from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight?
Producer
A consumer that only eats animals.
Carnivore
The largest trophic level that provides the base of the ecosystem
Primary Producer trophic level
Raccoons and crayfish are examples of animals that eat plant material, but also eat meat. So, you could refer to them as_____.
Omnivores
Describe which level of the energy pyramid has the LEAST amount of energy? BONUS: name that trophic level
Quaternary Consumers Level #5
The source of energy for most organisms on Earth.
Sunlight
A consumer that only eats plants.
Herbivore
Carnivores that eat other Carnivores. Where is their location on an Ecological Energy Pyramid?
Tertiary Consumer
The total organic matter in an ecosystem is created by the producers. The name literally means "living matter" bio________.
Biomass
The living components of an ecosystem.
Biotic Factors
The process plants use to capture energy from the Sun.
Photosynthesis
This is the trophic level of an organism that eats another organism, that eats another organism who ate a producer.
Tertiary Consumer
Meat eaters who feed on primary consumers.
Secondary Consumer
Much of the energy available in the food made by a producer or eaten by a consumer is used to maintain life functions. Therefore, it is lost as _____.
Heat
The word for the special "role" or "job" that organisms have in their ecosystem.
Niche
This is transferred between trophic levels.
Energy
Organisms that eat other organisms. Another name besides Consumers.
Heterotrophs
Trophic level of herbivores because they eat the producers.
Primary Consumer 2nd Trophic Level
At each trophic level, the amount of energy transferred to new biomass through growth and reproduction is only about ___% of what the organism eats.
10% on Average
Who is at the Top of a Food Chain or Food Web?
Quaternary Consumers or Apex Predator
Organisms that synthesize their own food are called producers. They have another name that literally means "self-feeder".
Autotroph
A consumer that can eat both plants and animals.
Omnivore
Next to the Primary Producer trophic level, the largest amount of biomass is in the trophic level made up of plant eaters.
Primary Consumer Trophic Level #2
An informative way to represent energy flow through an ecosystem, it shows all of the feeding relationships.
Food Web
Which Trophic Levels are Carnivores found on in an Ecological Energy Pyramid?
3rd and 4th Trophic Levels