Types of Consumers
A Lion is this type of consumer, which eats primarily other animals
Carnivore
A diagram that shows the one-way flow of energy through an ecosystem, from producers to consumers.
What is a food chain?
This type of organism can make its own food using solar or chemical energy.
What is a producer (autotroph)?
A model that shows the relative amount of energy at each trophic level.
What is an energy pyramid?
The water cycle includes evaporation, condensation, and this step where water falls back to Earth.
What is precipitation?
Consumers like Bears or Humans that eat both plants and animals are called?
Omnivores
Only this percentage of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
The process producers use to convert sunlight into energy-rich carbohydrates.
What is photosynthesis?
This pyramid shows the total amount of living tissue in each trophic level.
What is a biomass pyramid?
Plants absorb this gas from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
These consumers feed by chemically breaking down organic matter outside their bodies.
What are decomposers?
This diagram shows feeding relationships that are more complex and realistic than single chains.
What is a food web?
Organisms that rely on other organisms for energy and nutrients.
What are consumers (heterotrophs)?
This pyramid shows the relative number of individual organisms at each trophic level.
What is a numbers pyramid?
Daily Double!
Choose how many points to Wager then listen to the question.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
This type of consumer feeds on dead animals it did not kill itself
Scavenger
Each step in a food chain or food web is called a _______.
What is a trophic level?
This type of consumer eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
Energy not transferred to the next level is lost largely as this.
What is heat?
Phosphorus differs from carbon and nitrogen because it is not found in this part of the Earth system.
What is the atmosphere?
These aquatic primary producers perform most of earth's photosynthesis and form the foundation of all aquatic food webs.
Phytoplankton
These organisms form the first trophic level because all energy entering the ecosystem passes through them.
What are primary producers?
This group of consumers breaks down dead and decaying matter, returning nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
A food chain with many steps tends to be short because energy decreases at each level due to this principle.
What is the energy loss rule?
The process in which bacteria convert nitrogen gas (N₂) into ammonia (NH₃).
What is nitrogen fixation?