Energy Flow
What are the 3 energy roles?
What is Producer, Consumer, and Decomposer.
These consumers are also known as herbivores.
What is Primary Consumers
What organism comes first in a food chain?
What is a Producer
Does an organism have only one role in a food web?
What is no it can have multiple roles.
What organisms are found at the lowest level of the pyramid?
What is Producers
What is a producer?
What is an organism that makes its own food through a process called photosynthesis.
Tertiary Consumers are also known as what?
What is Carnivores
Who eats the secondary consumer in a food chain?
What is the Tertiary Consumer
Who do the arrows point to in a food web?
What is the organism that receives the energy.
What organism receives the least amount of energy in an energy pyramid?
What is the Tertiary Consumer
What is an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms?
What is a Heterotroph or Consumer.
Name the 3 main types of consumers.
What is Carnivore, Omnivore, and Herbivore.
What eventually happens to the tertiary consumer in a food chain?
What is the organism is either eaten by the quaternary consumer OR eventually dies and gets decomposed and put back into the ecosystem.
What percentage of energy is transferred between organisms?
What is 10%
What are fungi and bacteria?
What are Decomposers.
What is an omnivore?
What is an organism that consumes both plants and animals for energy.
Name the different positions in a food chain in the correct order from bottom to top.
What is: Producer Primary Consumer Secondary Consumer Tertiary Consumer
What is a food web?
What is a diagram that consists of many overlapping food chains.
What is an energy pyramid?
What is a diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level.
What is a decomposer?
What is an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms and returns the raw materials to the ecosystem.
Give an example of a scavenger.
What is Hyena, vulture, buzzard, jackal, catfish, etc.
What is a food chain?
What is A series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy.
A squirrel has a direct relationship with a hawk in a food web. In this scenario, what organism could the squirrel have an indirect relationship with and why?
What is any tertiary consumers or primary consumers. For Example: Coyote, bear, mountain lion, wolf, bunny, chipmunk, mouse, etc.
Who receives the most energy in an energy pyramid and why?
What is producers because they receive their energy from the sun to make their own food.