Vocab 1
Animals who primarily eat plants
What are herbivores?
Animals who primarily eat meat
What are carnivores?
This will happen to the number of prey in an ecosystem if the number of predators increases
What is decrease?
This is the most important part of the energy pyramid/food web
What are producers?
organisms that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
All the organisms in an area and the environment they live in
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that eat other animals and plants for energy
What are consumers?
This is what the arrows in a food chain represent
What is energy transfer?
This level of consumers are usually herbivores
What are primary consumers?
This is an example of a decomposer
What is a mushroom, worm, or bacteria?
Organisms that produce or create their own food/energy
What are producers?
Process where plants take in water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to produce energy and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the difference between food chains and food webs
What is food chains show energy transfer between single organisms while food webs show energy transfers between food chains (many of the organisms in an ecosystem)?
This level of consumers are usually small carnivores
What are secondary consumers?
These 2 items are what plants produce when they go through photosynthesis
What are oxygen and energy?
The transfer of energy between single organisms
What is a food chain?
Shows energy transfer between food chains
What is a food web?
This is the reason decomposers are important to the ecosystem
What is because they break down dead organisms which provides space and nutrients for new organisms to grow?
This is how much energy is passed from one organism to another when it is eaten (as a percentage)
What is 10%?
Green pigment in leaves which allows plants to absorb sunlight for energy
What is chlorophyll?
The loss of water and gas from leaves in a plant; plant sweat
What is transpiration?
Organisms that break down dead organisms to get their energy
What are decomposers?
This is what would happen to the food chain if the producer was wiped out or died
What is each level of consumer from primary to tertiary would no longer have a food source and the food chain would collapse?
What are tertiary consumers?
These 3 things are needed for plants to take in in order to perform photosynthesis
What are sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?