Many food chains linked together to show how energy flows in an ecosystem.
Food Web
Give an example of pond ecosystem food chain
Grass---- Grasshopper-----Frog
Which is the decomposers?
Mushrooms
An organism that is able to blend within it's environment
camouflage
Organisms that break down dead organisms and return the nutrients to the soil.
Decomposers
Consumers that only eat plants
Herbivores
The home of an organism
habitat
Which is the primary consumer?
grasshopper
Plants are able to make their own food through a process called...
Photosynthesis
Consumers that eat only meat
Carnivores
How much energy goes up to the next level of the Energy Pyramid?
10,000%
10%
100%
Organisms that eat other plants or animals for energy.
Consumers
A diagram that shows what each organism eats.
Food Chain
An animal that naturally preys on others.
Predator
Top of the food chain! Nothing eats them!
Tertiary Consumers
A model that shows the energy that is lost within an ecosystem.
Energy Pyramid
Consumers that eat both plants and animals
Omnivores
In an energy pyramid, these consumers eat producers.
Primary Consumers
In an energy pyramid, the consumers that eat herbivores.
Secondary Consumers
Organisms that make their own food using the sun's energy.
Producers
An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
Prey