Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Carbon Cycle
Water & Nitrogen Cycles
100
What types of organisms are producers?
What are plants?
100
I eat only plants. What am I?
What is a herbivore
100
many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is food web.
100

The key ingredient in living tissue

What is Carbon? 

100

A sink for the water cycle 

What is the ocean, plants, soil

200
True or False? Energy enters all ecosystems as sunlight.
What is True.
200
I eat only meat. What am I?
What is a Carnivore?
200

a diagram showing a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

What is a food chain.

200

The form in which carbon is transferred through the ecosystem 

What is CO2

200

The process in which water from plant leaves evaporates 

What is transpiration 

300

How do organisms obtain energy?

What is by consuming/eating 

300
I eat both meat and animals. What am I?
What is an omnivore?
300

An area in which a nutrient is stored 

What is a sink? 

300

One way carbon is taken up

What is Photosynthesis, Fossil fuel formation (deposition) or Formation of biomass

300

List two ways water moves on land 

What is Runoff, seepage(infiltration), and root uptake? 

400

Double Jeopardy: How much energy is transferred from one organism to another when feeding on one another

What is 10%

400

I break down waste and dead organisms. What am I?

What is a decomposer?

400

an area in which a nutrient is released 

what is a source? 

400

one way carbon is released 


  • Respiration, Decomposition, Erosion, Volcanic activity, and other geological activity

  • Human activity

400

Nitrogen gas must be converted to nitrates and ammonium in a process called ______________ for plants to be able to absorb it through their roots

what is nitrogen fixation 

500
What are the three energy roles all organisms in the ecosystem fit into?
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.
500

I eat only insects. What am I?

What is an insectivore?

500
Double Jeopardy: a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is an energy pyramid.
500

The process in which plants take in rays from the sun and COto create energy and oxygen

What is Photosynthesis?

500

What organisms carry out Nitrogen Fixation? Where does it occur? 

What are Nitrogen Fixing bacteria in soil or the roots of legumes.