Vocabulary
Food Chains
Consumers/Decomposers
Food web/ Energy Pyramids
Multiple choice
100

This is a green plant that makes its own energy

What is a producer?

100

All food chains start with this

What is a producer?

100

Bacteria, moss, mushrooms, and fungi are examples of these.

What are decomposers

100

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

•A. ecosystem

•B. food web

•C. environment

•D. population

what is B. food web

100

Producers use these three things to make food.

What is sunlight, carbon dioxide and water

200

A living thing that eats other living things to survive

What is a consumer?

200

This animal only eats plants

What is an herbivore?

200

What are three types of consumers

What are herbivore, carnivore and omnivore?

200

What does a food web show?

•A. how predators catch prey

•B. what food organisms eat

•C. why organisms find food

•D. when organisms seek food

What is B. what food organisms eat

200

What is the primary source of energy for an organism?

•A. carbon dioxide

•B. oxygen

•C. soil

•D. sunlight

What is D. sunlight

300

This is a model that shows how energy passes from organism to organism

what is food chain

300

Put this food chain in order....

 (grasshopper> grass > snake> frog > owl)

What is grass>grasshoppers>frog>snake>owl

300

I have flat teeth and eat only plants.

What are herbivores

300

In an energy pyramid, which way does the energy transfer?

What is from the bottom to the top?

300

During the decomposition process, the wastes of living organisms and the remains of dead organisms are broken down and their nutrients are returned to the soil. What is the most important cause of decomposition?

•A. air

•B. sunlight

•C. scavengers

•D. bacteria and fungi

What is D. bacteria and fungi

400

More than one food chain interconnected is called this.

What is food web

400

This is the second animal in a food chain

What is a carnivore, or an omnivore?

400

A lion eats only meat. It has very sharp teeth. It is a?

What is carnivore

400

In an energy pyramid, there are always a large number of _________ at the bottom and fewer top __________.

What is producers and consumers?

400

Which of these shows the flow of energy in a food chain?

•A. decomposers - consumers - plants -producers

•B. sun - consumers - producers - decomposers

•C. producers - predators - decomposers - consumers

•D. sun - producers - consumers - decomposers

What is D. sun - producers - consumers - decomposers

500

A relationship where one organisms hunts down, kills and eats another organism.

What is predator/prey

500

Give an example of third level consumer.

What is a scavenger

500

Omnivores have this kind of teeth and eat this.

What is flat and sharp teeth and meat and plants.

500

What percentage of energy is passed on from the producer to the predator?

What is 10%?

500

1.The diagram represents a pyramid of energy in an ecosystem. Which level would most likely contain members of the plant kingdom?  


What is level A