Vocabulary
An energy pyramid looks like what shape
triangle
Animal that eat only plants
herbivore
Which of the following is a living organism: a tree or a piece of paper?
Another name for an animal that eats plants or other animals.
autotrophs/producers
A diagram that shows the amount of energy at each level of the ecosystem.
Energy pyramid
Animal that eat only meat
carnivore
Organisms that use the sun's energy to make sugar and oxygen
plants
The path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem
food chain
This at the bottom level of a energy pyramid
producers
Food chains ultimately start with energy from the
sun
Animal that eat both, meat and plants
omnivore
Bacteria and mushrooms are:
decomposers
Plants use energy from the sun to produce food through the process of
photosynthesis
In an energy pyramid about 90% of the energy at a level is used and ______ is stored in the organism and passed up to the next level.
10%
If a plant is producing 100 calories, the rabbit that eats the plant how much calories it is going to get
10
Organism that break down the organic matter
decomposers
Rabbit and zebra are:
herbivores
What is greater (lower in the triangle) in the energy pyramid... producer or carnivore?
producer
Give an example of a food chain
Personal answer
Organism that obtain energy by eating dead bodies of other organisms
scavengers
A king vulture is a :
scavenger