Energy Flow Vocab Quiz

process by which producers use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy molecules such as glucose

• Energy Pyramid

• Cellular Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Trophic Levels

The place an organism lives

• Producer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Habitat

• Primary consumer

Only 10% of the total energy produced at each trophic level is available to the next level. The amount of energy passed up to the levels of the food pyramid reduces as you go up.

• 10% Rule

• Population

• Species

• Community

Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment

• Food Web

• Consumer

• Ecosystem

• Ecology

an organism that eats a primary consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

levels of nourishment in a food chain/energy pyramid

• Biotic Factor

• Trophic Levels

• abiotic Factor

• Photosynthesis

a single living thing

• Organism

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

a group of the same species that live in the same place

• Community

• Species

• Population

• 10% Rule

organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter and then returns nutrients to the environment

• Secondary Consumer

• Producer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Decomposer

network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem

• Consumer

• Ecosystem

• Food Web

• Food Chain