The amount of energy that is gained from a food source.
What is 10%?
An animal that is hunted for another animal to eat.
What is a prey?
A living thing that needs the sun, water, and nutrients so they do not depend on other living things.
What is a producer?
The only level that makes their own food.
What is the produce?
These live in the dirt and help decompose dead material.
What is worms?
The arrow represents this.
What is the flow of energy passing from one level to the next.?
An animal that hunts prey to eat.
What is a predator?
A living thing that depends on other living things to survive.
What is consumers?
Producers provide food for this trophic level.
What is primary consumers.
These animals are not to be confused with decomposers.
What is a scavenger?
The last level of the food web.
What is a decomposer?
An animal that consumes plants for food.
What is a herbivore?
An animal that eats plants or animals for survival.
What is a secondary consumer?
Water, carbon dioxide, and sun provide food for this trophic level.
What is producers?
A living fungus that grows from the ground that can be eaten.
What are mushrooms?
The start of a food web.
What is the sun?
An animal that mostly eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
These are unstable in an ecosystem.
These are interconnected and stable in an ecosystem.
What is Food Chains then Food Webs.
Relies on primary consumers and/or producers for food.
What is secondary consumers?
A Prokaryote that helps decompose material.
What is bacteria?
The flow of energy in a food web from start to finish.
What is the sun to producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer to tertiary consumer to quarternary consumer to decomposer?
An animal that consumes both meat and plants.
What is an omnivores?
These trophic levels are carnivores.
What is tertiary and quarternary consumers?
The amount of energy that is lost to heat.
What is 90%?
A decomposer does this.
What is break down dead plants and animals to return nutrients to the soil.