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Energy Transfers
Vores
Trophs
Oh What a Tangled Web
100
The amount of energy lost to the atmosphere as heat.
What is 90%?
100
Obtains energy from consuming other animals.
What is a carnivore?
100
Organisms found in the beginning level of a trophic pyramid.
What are plants or producers?
100
What happens if a predator is removed from a food web.
What is the number of its prey increases?
200
The amount primary consumers receive if primary producers begin with 1,500,000 calories of energy.
What is 150,000?
200
Obtains energy from consuming plants.
What is an herbivore?
200
Herbivores are also known as this trophic level.
What are primary consumers?
200
What happens when predators are added to a food web.
What is the number of prey decreases?
300
The amount secondary consumers receive if the primary producer has 42,300,000 calories.
What is 423,000?
300
Obtains energy from consuming both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
Humans are found at this trophic level.
What is either tertiary or quaternary trophic levels?
300
The level of organization shown in a food web.
What is an ecosystem?
400
The amount of calories a tertiary consumer receives if the primary consumer has 5,340,000 calories.
What is 53,400 calories?
400
Obtains energy from consuming dead animals?
What is a scavenger?
400
Means "self feeder".
What is autotroph?
400
Producers receive their energy from this source.
What is the sun?
500
The amount of calories the primary producer had if the quaternary consumer has 13.4 calories.
What is 134,000 calories?
500
Returns nutrients to the soil by breaking down dead materials.
What is a decomposer?
500
The other term for consumer.
What is heterotroph?
500
They play an important role by putting nutrients back into the soil.
What are decomposers or detritivores?