Energy Pyramid

What does an energy pyramid show?

• Energy flow in a community

• Longest lifespans

• The stronger animal the higher it is on the pyramid

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What would happen if the primary consumers died out?

• the producers would grow and the secondary and tertiary consumers would die

• producers would die out

• consumers would grow

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Makes its own food

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Position that an organism occupies based on what it eats

• Producer

• Trophic level

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

Only eats plants

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Decomposer

Only eats meat

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Producer

Eats other organisms

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Autotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Eats dead organisms and returns nutrients to soil

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

• Biomass

• Carnivore

Which organisms eat only producers?

• Secondary Consumers

• Apex Predators

• Tertiary Consumers

• Primary Consumers

Which level is found at the top?

• Primary Consumers

• Tertiary Consumers

• Producers

• Secondary Consumers