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Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts
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What types of organisms are producers?
What are plants?
100
I eat only plants. What am I?
What is a herbivore
100

a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy(Goes in one direction).

What is a food chain.

100
Quickly create a 3 link food chain.
answers may vary.
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
many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is food web.
200
How do organisms obtain energy?
What is by consuming/eating.
300

True or False. Producers are the source of all energy in an ecosystem.

What is True.

300

I eat both meat and plants. What am I?

What is an omnivore?

300

Double Jeopardy: a diagram that shows how much energy is passed from one organism to the next.

What is an energy pyramid.

300

Double Jeopardy:If plankton contains 1,000 kcal of energy, how much energy is being transfer to the next level?

What is 100 kcal.

400

The amount of energy that is passed from one trophic level to the next?

What is 10%

400

I am at the first animal to eat producers. What am I?

What is Primary Consumer?

400
Which diagram is a more realistic portrayal of how an ecosystem transfers energy: food web or food chain? Explain.
What is food web.
400
Identify the energy roles of the following organisms in a pond ecosystem: tadpole, algae, heron.
What is algae: producer Tadpole: herbivore/first level consumer Heron: consumer/ carnivore/ second level consumer
500
What are the three energy roles all organisms in the ecosystem fit into?
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.
500

I am the animal that eats secondary consumers. What am I?

What is Tertiary Consumer?

500

Another word for Producers. What am I?

What is Autotrophic?

500
Why is the pyramid shape useful for showing the energy available at each level of a food web?
answers may vary.