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Energy Flow in Ecosystems

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  • What is the name of trophic level C
    secondary consumer or 2nd level consumer
  • What is another name for producers?
    autotrophs
  • Is there more energy available at the producer level or at the tertiary consumer level?
    producer
  • What is another name for heterotrophs?
    consumers
  • Producer, consumer, or decomposer?
    Decomposer
  • Where do producers get their energy in a food chain?
    The sun
  • Producer, consumer, or decomposer?
    Consumer
  • Many interconnected food chains form a ____.
    Food web
  • What is a producer?
    Get their energy from the sun through the process of photosynthesis
  • What do the arrows in a food web represent?
    The flow of energy
  • What is a primary consumer?
    A meat eater that eats autotrophs
  • Producer, consumer, or decomposer?
    Producer
  • What is a decomposer?
    A decomposer breaks down dead matter and returns it to the soil to provide nutrients.
  • What animal is the apex predator in this food chain?
    The seal
  • All the different species of organisms living in an ecosystem
    a community
  • What is a carnivore?
    An organism that only eats meat/
  • What is a secondary consumer?
    A meat eater that eats primary consumers
  • What is a tertiary consumer?
    A meat eater that eats secondary consumers
  • A group of the same species of organisms living in an ecosystem
    a population
  • What is this a picture of?
    food chain
  • What is the name of trophic level A
    Producer
  • What is a consumer?
    An organism that eats another organism
  • All of the living and nonliving features that interact in a particular environment
    An ecosystem
  • What is the name of trophic level B
    1st level consumers or primary consumer
  • In an energy pyramid, how much energy moves up each level? (Answer is a percentage)
    Approximately 10%
  • What is a herbivore?
    An organisms that eats plants.
  • What is the name of trophic level D
    3rd level consumer or tertiary consumer
  • Which of these would be an herbivore? Choices: 1st level, 2nd level, 3rd level consumer
    1st level consumer (primary consumer)
  • What is an omnivore?
    An organism that eats both plants and animals.