Energy Flow in Ecsystems

Question 1

What are autotrophs

Answer 1

producers

Question 2

What is the importance of producers

Answer 2

create all usable energy on the planet

Question 3

What are heterotrophs

Answer 3

consumers

Question 4

Types of consumers

Answer 4

herbivores
carnivores
omnivores

Question 5

Importance of consumers

Answer 5

balance the number of producer and other consumers in an environment

Question 6

What are decomposers

Answer 6

organisms that break down dead and decaying organisms to obtain energy

Question 7

Importance of decomposers

Answer 7

break down matter and recycle nutrients back into the environment

Question 8

Food chain

Answer 8

diagram of the energy transfer among organisms in an ecosystem

Question 9

Each step in a food chain that demonstrates the transfer of energy is called

Answer 9

trophic level

Question 10

What happens when one organism is removed from a food chain

Answer 10

it interferes with the process of all the organisms in that chain

Question 11

Only …… of energy is passed from trophic level to the next

Answer 11

10%

Question 12

How is the remaining energy that passes through a trophic level used

Answer 12

used in life processes or lost as heat