Types of Organisms Flashcards
Producer
Organism that uses energy from the sun to make food
Consumer
Organism that cannot make their own food, they must eat other organisms for energy
Decomposers
Organism that obtain energy or nutrients from dead organisms
Types of organisms
producer,consumer,decomposer
types of CONSUMERS
Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavenger
Herbivore
feed on plants
carnivore
feed on meat
omnivore
feeds on both meat and plant
scavenger
feed on dead or decaying plant or animal
food chain
linear sequence of feeding relationships
Food web
shows how one organism is a part of multiple food chains
How does energy travel
everytime the food chain goes the consumer or producer only gets 10% of energy
Trophic levels
Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumer , and the tertiary consumer.
if i had a plant and a rabbit eats it how much energy does the rabbit get
10%
What happens to the organism as the energy pyramid goes up
the higher the organism the smaller the organism get