Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Key Concepts part 2
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What types of organisms are producers?
What are plants?
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I eat only plants. What am I?
What is a herbivore
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a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a food chain.
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Quickly create a 3 link food chain.
answers may vary.
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What would happen if the producers died out in an ecosystem?
The food chain would collapse starting from the bottom
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True or False? Energy enters all ecosystems as sunlight.
What is True.
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I eat only meat. What am I?
What is a Carnivore?
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many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is food web.
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How do organisms obtain energy?
What is by consuming/eating.
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What is missing from this food chain?
What is a decomposer?
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True or False. Producers are the source of all the food in an ecosystem.
What is True.
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I eat both meat and animals. What am I?
What is an omnivore?
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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.
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Double Jeopardy: How much energy is transferred from one organism to another when feeding on one another?
What is 10 percent.
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How do tertiary consumers differ from primary and secondary consumers? Provide examples.
tertiary consumers are the apex predators that eat the secondary consumers.
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List two major groups of decomposers.
What is bacteria and fungi.
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I get energy from the sun. What am I?
What is a producer
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Which diagram is a more realistic portrayal of how an ecosystem transfers energy: food web or food chain? Explain.
What is food web.
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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
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How do energy pyramids help scientists study and understand ecosystem dynamics?
Answers may vary
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What are the three energy roles all organisms in the ecosystem fit into?
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.
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I eat dead organisms but do not bring nutrients back to the earth. What am I?
What is a scavenger?
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I break down waste and dead organisms. What am I?
What is a decomposer?
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Why is the pyramid shape useful for showing the energy available at each level of a food web?
answers may vary.
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If a producer captures 1000 units of energy from the sun, how much energy would be available to the primary consumers?
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