Flow of Energy in a Food Web

What is a food chain?

• A restaurant franchise

• A manufacturing process for packaged foods

• A sequence of living things in which each one feeds on the one below it

• A method of preserving food for long periods

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What are phytoplankton known for?

• Consuming other small marine organisms

• Being primary consumers in the ocean

• Being primary producers, capable of photosynthesis

• Living on land and feeding on insects

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What role does a decomposer play in an ecosystem?

• It helps in pollination of plants

• It captures sunlight for photosynthesis

• It breaks down dead plants and animals to return nutrients to the soil

• It consumes other organisms for energy

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In a food chain or food web, the arrows always point to:

• What is being eaten

• Where the energy is going to

• Where the energy is coming from

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The PATH of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem.

• Decomposer

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Energy Flowmaster

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A collection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem.

• Food Chain

• Food Flow

• Production Line

• Food Web

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An organism that must eat to get the energy it needs.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Niche

• Ecosystem

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To move energy from one organism to another.

• Consumer

• Reproduce

• Teleport

• Transfer

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organisms that is next to them.

• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms.

• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.

• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.

• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms.

• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

• How carnivores get their food.

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