Ecology: E -> Energy Flow

Question 1

Energy flow

Answer 1

The flow of energy through an ecosystem

Question 2

Producer

Answer 2

An organism that makes its own food

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

Organism which obtains it’s energy by the consumption of other organisms

Question 4

Autotroph

Answer 4

A organism that makes its own food

Question 5

Heterotroph

Answer 5

An organism which obtains its energy by the consumption of other organisms

Question 6

Herbivore

Answer 6

Plant eater

Question 7

Omnivore

Answer 7

Meat and plant eater

Question 8

Carnivore

Answer 8

Meat eater

Question 9

Primary consumer

Answer 9

Herbivore/ plant eater

Question 10

Secondary consumer

Answer 10

Second consumer in a food chain/food web

Question 11

Tertiary consumer

Answer 11

Third consumer in a food chain/food web

Question 12

Decomposer

Answer 12

Organism which obtains its energy from dead or decaying organisms. This returning nutrients into the soil

Question 13

Predator

Answer 13

An organism that feeds on what it hunts and kills

Question 14

Prey

Answer 14

A species that us hunted and killed for food

Question 15

Scavenger

Answer 15

A species that feeds off of dead organisms that they did not hunt or kill themselves

Question 16

Food chain

Answer 16

A pathway in which energy flows through an ecosystem

Question 17

Food web

Answer 17

All possible pathways in which energy flows through an ecosystem

Question 18

Energy pyramid

Answer 18

Graphical representation to show the relationship between energy and trophic levels of a given organism

Question 19

Trophic level

Answer 19

The position that an organism occupies in a food chain~ what it eats and what eats it

Question 20

Photosynthesis

Answer 20

Conversion of suns energy to chemical (food/glucose) energy

Question 21

Cellular Respiration

Answer 21

Process by which chemical bonds (food/glucose energy) are concerted to usable energy (ATP)
~ C6H12O6 + 6O2 -> 6CO2 + ATP