Chapter 1
What is a producer?
Make their own food
What is a consumer?
Cannot make their own food. Need to eat to survive.
Where do decomposers go in the energy pyramid?
Along the side, at every level
What is at the top of the energy pyramid?
What is at the bottom of the energy pyramid?
Producers
What do Herbivores eat?
Producers
What do Carnivores eat?
Meat
What is a food chain?
What is a food web?
Shows how food chains overlap.
What is an energy pyramid?
Shows how much energy passes from one organism to another.
Plants use this process to make food.
Photosynthesis
What do Omnivores eat?
Both plants and animals
How much energy moves up in the energy pyramid?
10%
How much energy does an organism use in an energy pyramid?
90%
An ant eats the grass. A toad eats the ant. The snake eats the toad. A hawk eats the snake. What is the producer?
Grass
A green molecule that aides in the process of photosynthesis.
Chlorophyll
What is a decomposer?
An ant eats the grass. A toad eats the ant. The snake eats the toad. A hawk eats the snake. What is the second level consumer?
Toad
An ant eats the grass. A toad eats the ant. The snake eats the toad. A hawk eats the snake. What is the first-level consumer?
Ant
An ant eats the grass. A toad eats the ant. The snake eats the toad. A hawk eats the snake. What is the scavanger?
Hawk
What is the name of the cycle that involves both plants and animals?
The Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle
What do plants take in and give out during photosynthesis?
Take in Carbon Dioxide. Give off Oxygen.
What chemical is used by decomposers to break down dead organisms?
Enzymemes.
Give the order of organisms in a food chain.
Producers - First-Level consumers - Second-Level consumers - Third-Level consumers - Decomposers
An ant eats the grass. A toad eats the ant. The snake eats the toad. A hawk eats the snake. What is the third-level consumer?