Vocabulary
Ecosystems
Energy Pyramid
Food Chains & Food Webs
100
Organisms that create their own energy from the sun
Producer
100
Type of aquatic ecosystem covered by water at least part of each year
Wetlands
100
How much energy is transferred from one level to the next?
10%
100
What do the arrows in a food web represent?
Energy
200
Organisms that only eat producers
Primary Consumers/Herbivores
200
Order these ecosystems from low precipitation to high: Tropical Rainforest, Desert, Grassland
Desert, Grassland, Tropical Rainforest
200
Where does the energy lost go?
To the environment as heat
200
If a producer was taken out of the ecosystem in a food CHAIN, what would happen to the primary consumer?
It would go extinct
300
Picture that shows energy flow through an ecosystem
Energy Pyramid
300
Living parts of an ecosystem
Biotic Factors
300
What type of organism is a human?
Secondary consumer
300
If a producer was taken out of a food WEB, what could a primary consumer do?
Eat a different producer
400
A series of connected food chains
Food Webs
400
How are land ecosystems classified?
Precipitation Level
400
What allows the energy pyramid to happen?
The Sun/Sun's Energy
400
How are food chains and food webs related?
Food webs are made up of multiple food chains
500
Organisms at the top of the energy pyramid that eat other animals.
Tertiary Consumers
500
Type of ecosystem that joins rivers to oceans
Estuaries
500
What type of organism is a hawk?
Tertiary Consumer
500
What direction should arrows in a food chain/web face?
Towards the organism doing the eating
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