Producers & Prey
Consumers
Energy Flow
Ocean Producers
Wild Card
100

This term describes the role of an animal that gets hunted.



Prey

100

A fish that eats smaller fish is called this type of consumer.



Secondary Consumer

100

The original source of energy in most food webs.



The sun



100

This term describes organisms that make their own food



Producers

100

This ocean predator has rows of sharp teeth and smells blood from miles away.



Shark



200

This term describes the role of an animal that hunts prey.



Predator

200

Animals that only eat plants or algae are called



Herbivores

200

These organisms return nutrients to the ecosystem by breaking down waste. 



Decomposers



200

This sea plant looks like long ribbons and grows near the shore.



Seaweed



200

This kind of animal has a shell and moves slowly on the ocean floor. They are herbivores or carnivores and some are even venomous. 



Snail



300

What is an adult great white shark's primary food source? 


Seals and sea lions


300

An animal that eats both plants and other animals.



Omnivore

300

This diagram shows how energy moves through a single path.



Food Chain



300

This green organism floats on water and makes food from sunlight.



Algae

300

This underwater flowering plant is often mistaken for seaweed, but it has roots, stems, and leaves. It also plays a major role in stabilizing the ocean floor.



Seagrass

400

This large sea mammal is a top predator and eats seals and fish.



Orca (Killer Whale)



400

This small animal eats plankton and is eaten by fish.



Zooplankton

400

This more complex diagram shows many interconnected food chains.

Food Web



400

These organisms produce oxygen and are food for zooplankton.



Phytoplankton



400

The number of links in a food chain is usually limited by this.



The amount of energy passed on



500

In a meadow ecosystem, rabbits eat grass and are hunted by foxes. If a disease wipes out most of the rabbits, what will likely happen to the foxes and the grass over time — and why?

The fox population will decrease due to lack of food, and the grass will increase because fewer rabbits are eating it. 

500

Crabs and lobsters are examples of these bottom-dwelling consumers.



Scavengers

500

The level in a food web where the energy is the lowest.



Tertiary Consumer

500

This large green/brown seaweed forms underwater forests and provides food and shelter for many marine animals.



Kelp



500

A food web in the deep ocean might rely on this instead of sunlight.



Hydrothermal energy or chemosynthesis

ex. geothermal vents