Trophic Levels
What is the first trophic level called?
If the Producer has 78000 Kcals, how much does the Secondary Consumer get?
780 Kcals
Food Chain
A series of organisms that use each other for food to survive
What is the Apex predator in an African Food Web?
Lion
What eats all consumers, producers, and herbivores?
Apex Predator
What is it called when an animal has no natural predators?
Apex Predator
If the Tertiary Consumer had 49 Kcals, how many did the Primary Consumer have?
4900 Kcals
Photosynthesis
The process in which producers make food from sunlight
What is the most common producer?
Grass
What is it called when an organism only eats meat?
Carnivore
What trophic level is the animal that eats the animal that eats the producer? (3rd level)
Secondary Consumer
When a Secondary Consumer has 8320 Kcals, how many goes on to the next level?
832 Kcals
Energy Pyramid
A visual representation of energy flow in an ecosystem
Food Web
An extent of food chains that shows the full flow of energy throughout an ecosystem
What is it called when an organism waits for other consumers kill something and then they come in and eat it?
Scavenger
What trophic level is at the top? (Similar to Apex Predator)
Tertiary Consumer
If only 10% of the energy is moved onto the next trophic level, where does the rest go?
It is turned into heat energy since it is used in the animal
Ecosystem
A community of organisms who rely on each other for food to live
What would get the energy of the apex predator after it dies?
Decomposers
What is it called when an organism eats only plants?
Herbivore
Which trophic level eats the Producers?
Primary Consumer
If the producer has 629000 Kcals of energy, how many does the Tertiary Consumer end up with?
629 Kcals
Decomposer
An organism that breaks down dying or decaying organisms for energy
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food chains show the flow of energy throughout one part of the ecosystem, while food webs show all of them
DAILY DOUBLE: What was the first ever producer?
Algae