14.3 Flashcards
Consumers are?
Organisms that get energy from eating plants or animals. Ex. Rabbit, vulture, and tiger.
What is a producer
It is an organism that gets energy from the sun using cells and photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Ex. Plants algae and phytoplankton.
What are decomposers?
They are organisms that break down dead animal remains. Ex. Mushrooms, worms, and pill bugs.
What is a food chain?
It is the relationship between a producer, and a single chain of consumers in a ecosystem.
Food webs are?
It is a model of multiple food chains that connect to show a whole ecosystem’s energy transfer to different animals.
An energy pyramid is…
A model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level of an ecosystem.