Energy Roles
Types of Consumers
Vocabulary
Key Concepts 1
Key Concepts part 2
100
What types of organisms are producers?
What are plants?
100
I eat only plants. What am I?
What is a herbivore
100

a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

What is a food chain.

100

The unit of all living things.

What is a cell?

100

The process by which living things obtain and use energy from their environment

What is metabolism?

200
True or False? Energy enters all ecosystems as sunlight.
What is True.
200
I eat only meat. What am I?
What is a Carnivore?
200

many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

What is food web.

200
How do organisms obtain energy?
What is by consuming/eating.
200

CO2 + H2O ---˃ C6H12O6 + O2 + ATP

What is photosynthesis?

300
True or False. Producers are the source of all the food in an ecosystem.
What is True.
300
I eat both meat and animals. What am I?
What is an omnivore?
300

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?

300

How much energy is transferred from one organism to another when feeding on one another?

What is 10 percent.

300

2H2O ----˃ H2 + Oin thylakoids

What are the light-dependent reactions?

400

List two major groups of decomposers.

What is bacteria and fungi.

400

It breaks down waste and dead matter

What is a decomposer?

400

It consists of biotic and abiotic components that interact within a system.

What is an ecosystem?

400

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

400

The ability of living organisms to maintain a stable internal environment despite changes in the external environment

What is homeostasis

500

What are the three energy roles all organisms in the ecosystem fit into?

What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.

500
I eat dead organisms but do not bring nutrients back to the earth. What am I?
What is a scavenger?
500

From where do chemotrophs obtain energy?

What is organic matter?

500

What are the common features in all types of cells?

What are membrane, cytoplasm, and ribosomes?

500

The process by which living things release energy from food to perform various life activities

Respiration