Key Vocab
Plankton
Food Webs and the Flow of Energy
Producers and Consumers
100
An organism that makes its own food by photosynthesis or chemosynthesis
autotroph
100
Which plankton is larger, dinoflagellate or foraminifera?
foraminifera
100
Name an animal that is secondary consumer in this food web.
small fish
snails
prawns
100
The top predator in a food web is called this
apex predator
top consumer
200
Drifting or weakly swimming organisms suspended in water.
plankton
200
The most abundant type of phytoplankton in the ocean are these
diatoms
200
What percentage of energy or biomass makes it from one trophic level to the next?
10%
200
Initial consumer of primary producers. The consumers of autotrophs, the second level in food webs
primary consumer
300
One of a class of microscopic single-celled flagellates, not all of which are autotrophic. Planktonic dinoflagellates are responsible for “red tides”
dinoflagellate
300
copepod
300
Which direction do arrows point on a food web?
In the direction of who gains energy
from what gets eaten to the eater
300
Autotrophs are always this level of the food chain
Producers
400
This type of plankton gets larger than 1 cm. Provide an example
macroplankton, jellyfish
400
diatom
400
90% of all energy lost between trophic levels is lost to what?
heat
400
Anything that gains energy from eating something else is called...
Heterotroph
500
The planktonic phase of the life cycle of organisms that spend only part of their life drifting in the plankton.
meroplankton
500
Which type of zooplankton is a keystone species because it is food for all types of animals including fish, birds, and even some whales.
krill
500
What is it called when neurotoxins become more concentrated as you move up the food chain?
biomagnification
500
RANDOM: What is one difference between plants and seaweed?
They don't have roots, stems or true leaves
Seaweeds have blades, bladders and holdfasts