Vocab
This type of consumer eats only decomposing materials
What is a detritivore
How do producers get their energy
What is they create through photo- or chemosynthesis
Double Jeopardy: This is the amount of energy lost between each trophic level
What is 90%
All energy in any food chain comes from this source
What is the SUN
This type of consumer eats only other consumers
What is a carnivore
How do consumers get their energy
What is they eat other organisms
This is another name for a consumer that eats producers
Give an example of a detritivore
Answers may vary (fly, worm, dung beetle, etc)
This type of consumer eats only producers
What is an herbivore
Double Jeopardy: This shows how energy flows between trophic levels
What is a food chain
This is a visual representation of the energy available at each trophic level
What is an energy pyramid
Death or decline of one organism and over abundance of another
This type of organism creates their own energy
Many interconnected food chains make up this
What is a food web
Describe a secondary consumer
A consumer that eats the primary consumer in a food chain
Double Jeopardy: Describe a basic food chain with one example at each trophic level.
Answers may vary (ex. producer - grass, primary consumer - grasshopper, secondary consumer - mouse, tertiary consumer - hawk)
Double Jeopardy: This is the rule that explains the amount of energy transferred between trophic levels
What is the 10% rule
What is the similarity between photosynthesis and chemosynthesis?
Why does the energy pyramid provide a good visual explanation for the energy available at trophic levels
Answers may vary (more energy available from producers at the bottom than energy available from tertiary consumers at the top)
(From the video in class) This is how giant tube worms live off of energy provided from volcanic vents
Answers may vary (chemosynthesis from the bacteria living in their trophosomes)