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Feeding Roles
Ecosystems
Food Chains/Webs
Trophic Levels
Grab Bag
100
An organism that can make its own food
What is a producer
100
This is one single living thing
What is an organism
100
This is where all of the energy in an ecosystem comes from
What is the sun
100
Primary consumers eat these
What are producers
100
This is hunted by a predator
What is prey
200
An organism that eats only producers
What is an herbivore
200
This is all of the living things of one species in an area
What is a population
200
This is a single line of one organism eating another (for example: grass->rabbit->fox)
What is a food chain
200
Tertiary Consumers eat these
What are secondary consumers
200
These feed on and break down dead/decaying organisms
What are decomposers
300
An organism that cannot make its own food (Must eat)
What is a consumer
300
This is all of the living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem
300
This is made of many interconnected food chains
What is a food web
300
Secondary Consumers eat these
What are primary consumers
300
This term is a synonym (means the same thing as) for herbivore
What is primary consumer
400
An organism that eats both producers and consumers
What is an omnivore
400
This is all of the places on earth where living things may be found
What is the biosphere
400
These go at the bottom of a food chain or web
What are producers
400
As you go up a level (for example, from primary consumers to secondary consumers), there are how many times less organisms?
What is ten times
400
This is all of the living things in an area
What is the community
500
Lions and tigers (but not bears) are examples of this type of consumer
What are carnivores
500
This is the maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can support over time
What is the carrying capacity
500
The arrows in a food chain or web represent this
What is energy
500
If there are 100,000 kg of secondary consumers, about how many kg of tertiary consumers will there be?
What is 10,000 kg
500
This is a resource that there is not enough of in an ecosystem, that reduces the number of living things that can survive there.
What is a limiting factor