Ecosystem Order
Organism that breaks down dead organic material; also sometimes referred to as detritivores.
What is a Decomposer?
Bears, Wolves, Hawks
What are Tertiary Consumers?
This organism has the highest amount of energy on a food pyramid.
Who are the Producers of a food web.
The energy of an object due to its motion or position; the sum of an object's kinetic energy and potential energy.
What is Mechanical Energy?
An organism that is able to make their own food though photosynthesis.
What is an Autotroph?
They make their own food, which creates energy for them to grow, reproduce and survive using photosynthesis.
What is a Producer?
Small Birds and Snakes
What is Secondary Consumers?
This organisms has the lowest amount of energy on an energy pyramid.
What is an Apex predator?
This energy can be transferred from one object or system to another in the form of heat.
What is Thermal Energy?
An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
What is a Heterotroph?
Organisms that eat primary consumers for energy.
What is a Secondary Consumer?
Mice, insects, Grasshoppers
What are Primary Consumers?
Organisms that are herbivores and eat producers for energy.
What are Primary Consumers?
Energy stored in the bonds of chemical compounds.
What is Chemical Energy?
Organism that can also be known as apex predators, are usually at the top of food chains, capable of feeding on secondary consumers and primary consumers.
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
Herbivores, or organisms that only eat plants for energy.
What is a Primary Consumer?
Grass and Plants.
What are Producers.
Organisms that eat primary consumers for energy, they are carnivores.
What are Secondary Consumers?
Energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
What is Radian Energy?
An animal that only eats meat
What is a Carnivore?
A predator at the top of a food chain that is not preyed upon by any other animal.
What is an Apex Predictor?
Humans
What is an Apex Predators?
Organisms that eat primary and secondary consumers for energy and may also be an Apex.
What are Tertiary Consumers?
An animal that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?