U7: Bioenergetics Review

a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

• energy pyramid
• consumer
• invasive species
• food chain
• carnivore

a consumer that eats only meat

• carnivore
• consumer
• invasive species
• food chain
• energy pyramid

plants and animals that have migrated to places where they are not native

• invasive species
• consumer
• food chain
• energy pyramid
• carnivore

an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

• consumer
• invasive species
• food chain
• energy pyramid
• carnivore

the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates

• environment
• consumer
• invasive species
• food chain
• energy pyramid

a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• food chain
• consumer
• invasive species
• energy pyramid
• carnivore

consists of all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and the atmosphere

• biosphere
• consumer
• invasive species
• food chain
• energy pyramid

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

• ecology
• consumer
• invasive species
• food chain
• energy pyramid

an organism that can make its own food

• producer
• biome
• trophic level
• heterotroph
• population

each step in a food chain or food web

• trophic level
• biome
• heterotroph
• population
• autotroph