Food Chains
Every food chain starts with one of these?
What is a producer?
A food web is several _________________ put together.
What are food chains?
The process of converting sunlight into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
Phytoplankton
What is a producer?
This gives leaves their green color?
What is chlorophyll?
This organism is the third in a food chain.
What is a secondary consumer?
True/False: Organisms can only be one consumer level in a food web?
False
Where does photosynthesis take place?
What is chloroplasts?
Fungi
What is a decomposer?
This starts the movement of energy in an ecosystem. (clue:a star)
What is the sun?
A model that represents the feeding relationships and energy flow in a select group in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
Which way do the arrow point in a food web?
What is towards the organism who is eating or toward the stomach?
What are the two compounds that start photosynthesis?
What is CO2 and H2O? (Carbon Dioxide and Water)
Great white shark
What is a consumer? ("Fish are friends, not food!)
A carnivorous plant.
What is venus fly trap/pitcher plant/raflesia?
What level of consumer is a human (usually)?
What is tertiary consumer?
Grass - Mouse - Snake - Hawk
If the snake population deceases due to an illness, which organism will also decrease?
What is the Hawk?
What are the products that are released from photosynthesis?
What is O2 and H2O(vapor)? Oxygen and water vapor.
Vulture
What is a scavenger (consumer)?
Calories are to animals while ATP is to
What is cells?
Another name for a producer is?
What is an autotroph?
Why are food webs better then food chains?
They show a whole ecosystems feeding habits rather then just a select view.
The energy transformation during photosynthesis is ____________ energy into _____________ energy.
What is solar and chemical energy?
Pine tree
What is a producer?
The sugar produced in photosynthesis.
What is glucose (C6H12O6)?