Producers & Consumers
Food Chain
Predators & Prey
Energy
Random
100
The process by which plants use the Sun and CO2 to make food.
Photosynthesis
100
Consumer that eats only meat.
Carnivore
100
Removing too many predators from a food web might cause this to happen to the prey population.
Increase
100
This type of diagram shows energy loss between trophic levels.
Energy Pyramid
100
In the food chain grass → rabbit → fox,
the rabbit plays this role. (not herbivore)
Primary Consumer
200
This group of organisms cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms to survive.
Consumer
200
Consumer that eats only plants.
Herbivore
200
A collection of living and nonliving things and the ways they affect each other.
Ecosystem
200
The rest of the energy that is not passed on in a food chain is used for this.
Life Process (growth, movement...)
200
The main energy source for almost all food chains.
The Sun
300
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
Omnivore
300
A top predator that eats SECONDARY consumers?
Tertiary Consumer
300
Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
Predator
300
Scientists estimate that about ___ percent of the energy is passed from one link in a food chain to the next.
10 Percent
300
The term for each level of a food chain where energy is transferred.
Trophic Level
400
The type of organism that makes its own food using sunlight.
Producer
400
Breaks down dead organic matter, recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.
Decomposer
400
An animal that feeds on dead animals.
Detritivores or Scavenger
400
A network of interconnected food chains.
Food Web
400
What would happen if you remove Snake from the food web?
Kite (eagle) would die off, increase in mice, Wild Cat would have one less thing to eat
500
Give two examples of a producer.
Grass, trees, algae, etc.
500
The direction the arrows point in a food chain shows this.
Flow of Energy
500
Give an example of an omnivore
Bear, Human, Raccoon...
500
Food chains can't have too many links because the animals at the end of the chain would not get enough _______ to stay alive.
food/energy
500
What is the Tertiary Consumer in the Food Web
Lion