Show:
Vocabulary
Photosynthesis, etc.
Fill in the Blank
Energy Pyramid
Energy Flow
100

All the food chains combined in an ecosystem

What is a food web? 

100

Plants use carbon dioxide and energy from the sun to make their own food.  True or False?

True

100

An elephant eats only plants that makes it a _________________.

Herbivore

100

The base of the Energy pyramid is occupied by what feeding level and what percentage of energy is available

Producers have 100% energy

100

All the food chains start with this source of energy

What is the sun?

200

Description of how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another

What is a food chain?

200
Organism that only eats flesh.
What is a carnivore.
200

A tiger is a good example of this type of consumer _____________.

Carnivore

200

The 2nd level of the Energy pyramid is occupied by what feeding level and what percentage of energy is available

Primary Consumers get 10% of the energy

200

From the organisms that are eaten to those that do the eating

Which directions do arrows point in a food chain?

300

Organism that feed off of dead and decaying remains of producers and consumers

Decomposer

300
A consumer that eats both plants and flesh
What is an omnivore.
300

A plastic bottle and soil and examples of __________ components of an ecosystem.

abiotic

300

The 3rd level of the Energy pyramid is occupied by what feeding level and what percentage of energy is available

The secondary consumers get 1% of the energy

300
Why are there fewer consumers than producers in a food web?
There is less energy available the higher you go in the food pyramid
400

Organism that cannot make their own food

Consumer

400
True or False: 1st level consumers can never be carnivores
True, carnivores must be 2nd or 3rd level consumers
400

Fungi and bacteria are good examples of _______________

Decomposers

400

Body heat, hunting, movement, reproduction, eating, defense

Where is energy lost at each successive level in an energy pyramid (food chain)?

400
Why do producers make up the largest group in the energy pyramid.
Because they make their own food and form the base of energy for the ecosystem.
500

Organism that takes non-living matter and uses it to make food (energy) for itself with surplus for other organisms

Producer

500

Name an example of an herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore.

Answers determined by the class: ex herbivore: grasshopper carnivore: lion omnivore: human

500

Oak trees and wild flowers are good examples of ______________

producers
500

Decomposers that put energy and nutrients back into the soil

What is the final level of the energy pyramid or food chain? 

500

Give an example of food chain with five levels (stay within the same biome)

Determined by class