Energy and Life
This is transferred between trophic levels.
What is energy?
Organisms that eat other organisms
What are consumers?
The name of Ms. Cummings' cat.
What is Henry?
Trophic level of herbivores because they eat the producers.
What is a primary consumer?
At each trophic level, the amount of energy transferred to new biomass through growth and reproduction is only about ___% of what the organism eats.
What is 10%?
The process plants use to capture energy from the Sun.
What is photosynthesis?
Another name for consumer that literally means "Eats others organisms. Hint: from the word "hetero" which means different
What is a heterotroph?
The other subject Ms. Cummings teaches.
What is forensic science?
Meat eaters who feed on primary consumers.
What is a 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 _____.
What is heat.
The source of energy for most organisms on Earth.
What is the sun?
A consumer that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
Banneker's 2019-2020 slogan.
What is #Better?
Role of meat eaters when they feed on other meat eaters
What is a tertiary consumer?
The total organic matter in an ecosystem is created by the producers. The name literally means "living matter"
What is biomass?
Photosynthetic organisms who synthesize food (carbohydrates) from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight?
What is a producer?
A consumer that only eats animals.
What is a carnivore?
Last night, I ate pasta salad for dinner. Pasta is made from grain so it belongs on this trophic level.
What is producer?
The largest trophic level that provides the base of the ecosystem
What is the 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_____. (Bonus: what trophic level would you place them on)
What are omnivores. (bonus: secondary consumers)
Organisms that synthesize their own food are called producers. They have another name that literally means "self-feeder".
What is an autotroph?
A consumer that can eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
UGA plays this team in football this weekend.
What is Notre Dame.
Next to the producer trophic level, the largest amount of biomass is in the trophic level made up of plant eaters.
What is the primary-consumer trophic level?
An informative way to represent energy flow through an ecosystem, it shows all of the feeding relationships.
What is a food web?