Food Web and Energy Pyramid

90% of the energy that gets lost as you move up a food pyramid or chain gets lost as

• pollution to the environment

• heat to the environment

• energy for decomposers

• gets recycled

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What would be a good example of a primary consumer?

• carnivore

• detrivore

• decomposer

• herbivore

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Green plants are considered to be

• producers

• consumers

• herbivores

• omnivores

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph

• Producer

• Heterotroph

• C

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What does a food web represent?

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

• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 

• How carnivores get their food. 

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Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them. 

• They may eat more than one other organism. 

• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources. 

• They have no resources available to them.

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The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Secondary Consumer

• Primary Consumer

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a living thing that eats other living things to obtain energy

Ex.: animals (mouse, deer, snake, humans)

• Producers

• Consumers

• Detritivores

• Carnivores

An illustration that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which matter and energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.

• Food chain

• Food web

• Energy Pyramid

• Succession Map

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Who does the owl get energy from? 

• Grass

• Grasshopper

• Mouse

• Ow

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