Food Chain
Food Web
Cellular Respiration
Energy Transfer
Energy Pyramids
100
Is a sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next and so on.
What is a Food Chain?
100
Shows many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
The process of breaking down food to yield energy.
What is Cellular Respiration
100
Each time one organism eats another organism.
Transfer of energy occurs
100
One way to visualize the loss of energy from one trophic level to the next trophic level is to draw an ____________.
What is Energy Pyramid?
200
Is the producer of the food chain.
What is Algae?
200
Notice that the food chain is just one strand in the larger _________.
What is Food Web?
200
Is another name for breathing.
What is Respiration
200
We can trace the transfer of energy as it travels through an ecosystem by studying what?
Studying food chains, food webs, and trophic levels.
200
Each layer in the energy pyramid represents __________.
What is One trophic level?
300
Algae are eaten by_______. a) Krill b) Cod c) Seals
What is Krill?
300
A herring is eaten by_________. a) Cod b) Penguin c) Squid
What is Cod
300
Sugar and oxygen combine to yield carbon dioxide, water, and, most importantly, energy.
Cellular Respiration Process
300
Studying the paths of energy between organisms can aslo tell us which organisms in an ecosystem depend on other organisms to __________.
What is Survive?
300
Producers form the base of the pyramid,______________, which contains the most energy.
What is the lowest energy trophic level?
400
The cod is eaten by__________. a) killer whales b) seals c) krill
What is seals?
400
A squid is eaten by _________. a) Killer Whale b) Cod c) Seal
What is Killer Whale?
400
Every time you walk, read a book, or play a sport you use________.
What is Energy?
400
Food chains, food webs, and trophic levels can tell us how energy is _________.
What is Transferred
400
A pyramid is a good way to illustrate trophic levels because the pyramid becomes smaller toward the top, where less energy is _________.
What is available?
500
Leopard seals are eaten by _________. a) Killer Whales b) Squid c) Cod
What is Killer Whales
500
A penguin is eaten by __________. a) Leopard Seal b) Cod c) Squid
What is Leopard Seal
500
Even organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis use _________ to obtain energy.
What is Cellular Respiration?
500
When you eat something you use ____________ to do stuff.
What is Energy?
500
Organisms in the upper trophic levels store less energy than both ________ and ____________.
What is herbivores and producers?