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Energy Pyramid
Energy Flow
100

The term for living or once living

What is a biotic? 

100

This biome has cone-bearing trees and long snowy winters

What is the taiga?

100

An elephant eats only plants that makes it a _________________.

Herbivore

100

What percent of energy do producers receive from the sun?

Producers have 100% energy

100

All the food chains start with this source of energy

What is the sun?

200

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

What is a food chain/web?

200

This biome is cold and treeless

What is the tundra.

200

Fungi and bacteria are good examples of _______________

decomposers

200

If there is 1000 kcal of energy available at the producer level, how much is available to secondary consumers?

10 kcal

200

What do the arrows in a food chain represent?

What is energy flow?

300

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

Decomposer

300

The biome with the highest biodiversity. 

What is the rainforest.

300

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

abiotic

300

The tertiary consumers have 600kcal of energy, how much do the primary consumers have?

60,000 kcal

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/ Heterotroph

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

How an environment is able to overcome challenges is called _____________.

Sustainability 

400

What happens to the 90% of energy that is lost?

Lost as heat

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

Different kinds of life is called ______________

biodiversity

500

If there is 73,245 kcal available to the first trophic level, how much will be available to quaternary consumers? 

7.3245 kcal

500

Draw a food chain with 5 energy roles

Determined by class