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TRMS Energy Flow
Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do you call organisms that can make their own food from sunlight? | Producer/Autotroph |
| What do you call an organism that cannot make its own food? | Consumer/Heterotroph |
| The first organism in a food chain is always a ______. | Producer |
| What do you call an organism that eats both plants and animals? | Omnivore |
| What do you call an organism that eats dead plants and animals? | Scavenger |
| What do you call organisms that break down dead organisms and return the nutrients to the soil? | Decomposer |
| What do you call organisms that eat primary or first-level consumers? | Second-level consumer |
| What do you call the triangular diagram that shows an ecosystems loss of energy? | Energy Pyramid |
| Which part of the energy pyramid contains the most available amount of energy from the sun? | The producer level. |
| What do you call a diagram that shows a series of overlapping food chains? | Food Web |
| What do you call the energy flow through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns in a series of organisms? | Food Chain |
| What do you call organisms that eat secondary or second-level consumers? | Tertiary consumer/Third Level consumer |
| In an energy pyramid how much energy is passed from one level to the next level? | 10% |
| In an energy pyramid how much energy is lost from one level to the next level? | 90% |
| What happens to the energy that is lost in an ecosystem? | Heat energy |
| What do you call organisms that no longer exist? | Extinct |
| What do you call organisms that are so important that if they no longer exists the ecosystem would collapse? | Keystone |
| What do you call organisms that may become extinct in the near future? | Endangered |
| What do you call organisms that are likely to become endangered in the near future? | Threatened |
| What do arrows in a food chain show? | It shows the flow of energy from the organism that was eaten to the organism that is doing the eating. |
| What is the original source of energy for all living things? | The sun |
| Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores are all what kind of organisms? | Consumers |
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