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Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Random Questions Mrs. Simmons Could Not Put into a Category
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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.
What is a food chain.
100
Quickly create a 3 link food chain.
answers may vary.
100

An ecosystem can support a population of 1,500 frogs. What will happen if the number of frogs increases to 2,750? 

The frog population will decline sharply. 

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.

200

True or False: The following scenario includes a biotic and an abiotic factor. 

" A mouse breathing in air" 

True 

300
True or False. Producers are the source of all the food in an ecosystem.
What is True.
300
I eat both meat and animals. What am I?
What is an omnivore?
300

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?

300

How much energy is transferred from one organism to another when feeding on one another?

What is 10 percent.

300

Looking at the food chain, how does the frog receive nitrogen?

Algae -> Water Beetle -> Frog -> Kingfisher 

Water Beetle 

400
List two major groups of decomposers.
What is bacteria and fungi.
400
I eat only insects. What am I?
What is an insectivore?
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

400

How does oxygen gas enter a food web? 

Organisms intake oxygen for cellular respiration. 

500
What are the three energy roles all organisms in the ecosystem fit into?
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.
500
I eat dead organisms but do not bring nutrients back to the earth. What am I?
What is a scavenger?
500
I break down waste and dead organisms. What am I?
What is a decomposer?
500
What type of energy is lost at each trophic level? 

Heat Energy 

500

In terms of its effect on population, which factors are most similar to birth rate 

A - Immigration

B - Emigration 

C - Density 

D - Carry Capacity 

Immigration