Food chain
What shows how energy is passed from one organism to another?
Food chain
An animal that is part of two different food chains is part of a
Tiny living things made up of one one cell are called
microorganisms
The energy we get directly from the sun is called
What is a predator?
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
Animals that eat both plants and animals
Omnivores
The struggle of several organisms for the same resources is
competition
Protist
photosynthesis
Why are some microorganisms considered producers? What can they do?
Some microorganisms are producers because they make their own food through photosynthesis.
What break down organisms that are no longer living?
Decomposers
All the members of a single type or organism in an environment.
population
one of the smallest organisms that can be both helpful and harmful to humans.
bacteria
Everything that surrounds a living this is called
environment
Each level of an energy pyramid gets how much energy from the level below it? %
10%
Green plants in a food chain that make their own food are called
Producers
A model that shows how much energy flows through a food web.
energy pyramid
Fungi
How do plants get their energy?
from a process called photosynthesis
Animals are considered _____ because they eat plants or animals for food.
consumers
What can happen to a food web when a new organism is brought into an environment it is not originally from?
If a new organism is brought into an environment it is not originally from, it can have unexpected effects on a food web. For example, when the cane toad was brought to a new area by humans to eat beetles, it ate other organisms, but not the beetle.
What can happen when one organism is removed from a food web? Think of the sea otters/urchins/kelp.
When an organism is removed from a food web, there will be problems for other organisms. For example, sea urchins nearly destroyed kelp forests because their predator, sea otters, were over hunted. As a result, other organisms who used the kelp forests for shelter and food were left without shelter and food.