Question:

How is energy past from one organism to another?

Quick Vocabulary Review

Producer Vs. Consumer

• Producer/Autotrophic - An organism that can make its own food.

• Consumer/Heterotrophic - An organism that CANNOT make its own food.

Question

What is another word for producer?

Types of Eaters

• Herbivore - Eats only plants (producers/autotrophs)

• Carnivores - Eats only meat (consumers/heterotrophs)

• Omnivores - Eats both plants and meat

Question

What type of organism eats only producers?

Question:

What do you the arrows represent in a food chain?

Question

Why does the producer have to always be first in a food chain?

Question

What is the name of the organism that eats the primary consumer?

Food WEBS!

Many food chains together (this is an accurate representation of an enviroment)

Food Webs

• Food webs are a stable representation of an environment.
  

• Many of these animals have an alternative sources of food if one becomes unavailable.

Question

Which is more stable? Food chains or food webs

Energy Pyramid

* Show how much energy is passed from one organism to the next.

Question

True or False: There is more energy at the top of the energy pyramind

Question

What percentage of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?