I am a network of food chains that are connected.

What am I?

I include all living and nonliving things in an

environment. What am I?

All the members of a single species in an

ecosystem are part of me. What am I?

I am the path that energy takes as it moves

from one organism to another in an ecosystem.

What am I?

I am a network of food chains that are connected.

What am I?

Predators hunt me for food. Who am I?

I am an animal that hunts other animals for food.

Who am I?

At the base of each food chain are..........................that use the Sun’s energy to make sugar and oxygen during photosynthesis

The sugars provide food for......................... , or

plant-eating animals

Organisms in an ecosystem that break down dead or

decaying plants and animals are.................

Animals that eat plants

Animals that eat both plants and

animals are..................................

Animals that eat other animals

I am a diagram that shows the amount of energy

available at each level of an ecosystem. What am I?

. At each level of an energy pyramid, about..............

percent of the energy from the level below is lost.

Animals such as vultures and raccoons are................

that eat dead bodies after they have started to rot.

an organism that makes its own food

Removing a species from a food web can throw an

ecosystem out of

At each level of an energy pyramid, about

percent of the energy from the level below is gain.