Energy, Producers and Consumers

first producer of energy rich compounds in a food chain

• Primary Producer

• tertiary consumer

Autotroph-an organism that can capture energy from sunlight and produce food

• true

• false

what is the process used by autotrophs to capture light and make food energy

• Photosythesis

• chemothesis

• consumers

• Autotroph

what is the process in which chemical energy is used to produce carbohydrates

• chemosynthesis

• Photosynthesis

• consumer

• Detrivorzation

what is a organism that relies on other organisms for energy and nutrients

• consumers

• carnivores

• decomposers

• autotroph

what are the different types of consumers?

• Carnivores

• Herbavores

• Omnivores

• scavengers

• detritivores/ decomposers

food web- shows one path of the flow of energy in an ecosystem

• true

• false

food web

• A model that shows many food chains and how they react

• single linear pathway showing how food moves

• false

when a organism eats another what transfers

• enegy

• biomass

• food

what are the three ecological pyramid?

• pyramid of numbers

• biomass pyramid

• energy pyramid

• energy flow pyramid