Energy Flow Lesson

Which of these shows a possible food chain for an ecosystem?

• shark--> fish --> plankton -->sun

• sun --> plankton --> fish --> shark

• plankton --> sun --> fish --> shark

• plankton --> fish --> shark --> sun

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumers obtain energy by

• eating other organisms

• eating plants

• photosynthesis

• nitrogen

an organism that can make its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• role

an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• heterotroph

A series of events in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• Food Web

• Producer

• Food Chain

• Energy Pyramid

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Energy Pyramid

• Food Chain

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The process by which plants use light energy to make food

• Chlorophyll

• Photosynthesis

• Producers

• Consumers

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that gets its food from the sun

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

• Chlorophyll

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

an organism that gets energy by breaking down biotic waste

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

• heterotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that obtains energy from feeding on another organism

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2