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Vocabulary
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Energy Pyramid
Energy Flow
100

What is a food web?

 All the food chains combined in an ecosystem

100

What two inorganic compounds does photosynthesis convert to sugars?

CO2 and H2O

100

An elephant eats only plants that makes it a _________________.

Herbivore

100

What percent of the energy available in one trophic level is transferred to the next?

10%

100

All the food chains start with this source of energy

What is the sun?

200

What is a food chain?

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

200

What is a carnivore?

Organism that only eats flesh.

200

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

Carnivore

200

What do ecological pyramids show?

The relative amount of energy or matter contained within each trophic level in a food chain or web.

200

Which directions do arrows point in a food chain?

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

300

Define decomposer 

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

300

What is an omnivore?

A consumer that eats both plants and flesh

300

Each step in a food chain or food web is called a _____________.

trophic level
300

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

Producers have 100% 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

What is an 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

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

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

What is an 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

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

500

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

Determined by class