Types of organisms
What is a Producer?
Plants, that make their own food through the process of photosynthesis
What is an organism that eats other organisms?
A Carnivore
Where did the original source of energy for a food chain come from?
The sun.
Why do arros point from prey to predator?
The arrows point the direction the way the energy flows.
What is a primary consumer?
Organism that eats plants
What is a decomposer?
A organism that breaks down dead organism into nutrients for the soil.
What are organisms that eat plants and animals?
Omnivore
How do plants use the energy from the sun?
To make its own food by photosynthesizing.
What shows the relationship among all species in an ecosystem?
Food web
What is a secondary consumer?
Organism that eats herbivores
Provide three examples of decomposers.
Bacteria, mushrooms(fungi), and earthworms.
What are organisms that get their energy from eating dead organisms?
Scavengers
A model of how food chains are connected is called a?
What eats other organisms for energy?
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What is a tertiary consumer?
Large predators that eat secondary consumers.
What are necessary for plants to produce energy?
Sunlight, carbon dioxide, water
What does every organism in an ecosystem rely on?
That plants make their own food.
What is a model of how energy is transferred in an ecosystem?
Identify 3 food chains within the food web.
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What is a quarternary consumer?
An large organism that eats tertiary consumers.
What is a consumer?
An organism that eats plants or animals
What is an herbivore?
Organisms that eat plants.
What is a food chain?
A diagram that shows what each organism eats
What is a Food Web?
A food web is many food chains to show how energy flows in an ecosystem.
It is a model that shows the energy that from one feeding level to the next within an ecosystem.