Energy and Life
An organism that creates food energy from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight?
What is a producer?
A consumer that only eats animals.
What is a carnivore?
The largest trophic level that provides the base of the ecosystem
What is the producer trophic level?
Raccoons and crayfish are examples of animals that eat plant material, but also eat meat. So, you could refer to them as_____.
What are omnivores?
Describe which trophic level of the energy pyramid gets the LEAST amount of energy?
What is the apex level? (quaternary, tertiary, top)
The source of energy for most food chains on Earth.
What is the sun?
A consumer that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
Trophic level of meat eaters when they feed on other meat eaters
What is a tertiary consumer?
The total organic matter in an ecosystem is created by the producers. The name literally means "living matter" bio________.
What is biomass?
The living components of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
The process plants use to create food from the energy of the Sun.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the trophic level of an organism that eats another organism, that eats another organism who ate a producer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
Meat eaters who feed on primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
Much of the energy available in the food made by a producer or eaten by a consumer is used to maintain life functions. Therefore, it is lost as _____.
What is heat?
The nonliving components of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
This is transferred between trophic levels as one organism consumes another.
What is energy?
Organisms that eat other organisms
What are consumers?
Trophic level of herbivores because they only eat the producers.
What is a primary consumer?
At each trophic level, the amount of energy transferred to new biomass through growth and reproduction is only about ___% of what the organism eats.
What is 10%?
This is 2 things are essential, but are missing from the Energy Pyramid.
What are the Sun and Decomposers?
Organisms that create their own food are called producers. They have another name that literally means "self-feeder".
What is an autotroph?
A consumer that can eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
After the producer trophic level, this is the largest amount of biomass is in the trophic level, made up of plant eaters.
What is the primary consumer trophic level?
A diagram that shows the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
A diagram that shows the transfer of energy through a line of organisms.
What is a food chain?