Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

A consumer that eats only producers.

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

An organism that makes its own food.

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Herbovore

• Carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

This shows the total energy available at each trophic level of an ecosystem.

• Energy Pyramid

• Food Chain

• Food Web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

This organism is always first on a food web.

• Plants

• The Sun

• Apex Predator

• Primary Consumer

The energy organisms need to live and grow first enters the ecosystem when-

• decomposers break down dead organism

• plants take in light energy from the sun

• primary consumers eat plants for food

• secondary consumers eat primary consumers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The feeding level at the bottom of an energy pyramid contains the

• Producers

• Primary Consumers

• Herbivores

• Apex Predators

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The complete removal of decomposers from an ecosystem will have the greatest effect on which of the following?

• migration

• the availability of water

• the recycling of nutrients

• the distribution of organisms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What level consumer is the frog

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Apex Predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What level consumer is the snake?

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary

• Apex Predator

Consumers that eat only plants.

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2