Energy Flow
This is the original source of energy for most ecosystems.
What is the sun?
A simple path showing energy transfer from one organism to another.
All living and nonliving things interacting in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that break down dead matter.
What are decomposers?
The bottom of the energy pyramid always has the most of this.
What is energy?
Only about this percent of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
A complex network of many food chains.
What is a food web?
A group of ecosystems with similar climate and organisms?
What is a biome?
A consumer that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
This level of an energy pyramid contains plants and algae.
What are producers (first trophic level)?
Organisms that make their own food using sunlight are called this.
What are producers? (Autotrophs)
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
This biome is found in Missouri and has grasses and few trees.
What is grasslands?
A consumer that eats only animals.
What is a carnivore?
This trophic level eats producers.
What are primary consumers?
This process allows plants to convert sunlight into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
In the chain: grass -> rabbit -> fox, this organism is the primary consumer.
What is the rabbit?
This factor includes water, sunlight, and temperature.
What are abiotic factors?
Fungi and bacteria are examples of these.
What are decomposers?
This level includes animals that eat other consumers.
What are secondary consumers?
Energy decreases at each level because of this lost form of energy.
What is heat (thermal energy)?
Arrows in a food chain show direction.
What is the flow of energy?
This ecosystem/biome would most likely have trees, deer, and squirrels.
What is a forest?
An organism that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
This diagram shows how energy decreases from one level to the next.
What is an energy pyramid?