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