Food webs, Food chains, Energy pyramids, and Thermodynamics

What is an ecosystem?

• An ecosystem is a community of living organisms and their physical environment interacting as a system.
• A group of people living in a city.
• A type of weather pattern.
• A collection of plants in a garden.

What organisms are found in an ecological pyramid

• Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers.
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Decomposers

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Which factors are the only parts of the ecosystem that transfers energy?

• Soil and water
• Decomposers and scavengers
• Sunlight and air
• Living things - Biotic

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What is an organism that only eats plants?

(a)  

What organisms eat only animals?

(a)  

What organism can eat plants AND animals?

(a)  

What is something that makes its own food?

(a)  

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What is something that recycles nutrients from dead organisms?

(a)  

What is a food chain?

• A food chain is a type of restaurant.
• A food chain is a sequence of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
• A food chain is a group of people who eat together.
• A food chain is a method of cooking food.

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What is a food web?

• A food web is a single linear chain of organisms.
• A food web is a type of plant that grows in water.
• A food web is a diagram showing only the producers in an ecosystem.
• A food web is a network of food chains that illustrates how different organisms in an ecosystem are interconnected through feeding relationships.

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