Energy In Ecosystems

What is a Food Chain?

• a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

• A hierarchy

• The chain from the apex predator to the producer, each relying on each other.

• A Carnivore eating a herbivore

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What is an example of a producer?

• Algae

• Uses the energy from sunlight to get food

• A rock

• A Lion

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What is a decomposer?

• A dung beetle

• Grey Wolf

• Organisms that get energy from the dead remains of other organisms.

• Organisms that get energy from the sun.

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What is an example of a scavenger?

• Gets energy from the dead remains of animals.

• Turkey Vulture

• A Grasshopper

• Gets energy from animals.

What is a food web?

• A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

• A web of omnivores eating each other.

• Small mammals depending on each other while eating producers.

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What is not an example of a carnivore?

• Fox

• Dolphins

• Lion

• Grasshopper

What is a example of a omnivore?

• Lion

• Grasshopper Mouse

• Grasshopper

• Gopher

What is the definition of a herbivore?

• Get energy from plants.

• Eats plants and small mammals for energy.

What is not example of a consumer?

• Turkey Vulture

• Grasshopper

• Hawk

• Grass

What is an energy pyramid?

• An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community.

• You

• Me

• A Class

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