Unit 3 Concept 3

Question 1

Producer

Answer 1

Get energy from nonliving sources.

Question 2

Consumer

Answer 2

Gets energy from living or once-living organisms.

Question 3

Detritivore

Answer 3

Eat dead materials.

Question 4

Carnivore

Answer 4

Eat only meat.

Question 5

Omnivore

Answer 5

Eat meat and vegetation.

Question 6

Herbivore

Answer 6

Eat only vegetation.

Question 7

Explain the difference between how autotrophs and heterotrophs acquire energy.

Answer 7

Autotrophs acquire energy from nonliving things like plants, some bacteria, and algae. Heterotrophs acquire energy from living or once-living organisms like animals, most bacteria, and fungi.

Question 8

Explain the significance of detritivores (decomposers) in a food chain/food web.

Answer 8

While all the other consumer eat either meat or vegetables detritivores eat the remains of dead materials.

Question 9

Use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.

Question 10

Explain why the pyramid shape is used to represent energy, biomass, and numbers pyramids.

Answer 10

To show how energy flows through an ecosystem and demonstrate how everything works.

Question 11

Draw an example of an energy pyramid and explain how energy flows through each level. Label the trophic level, classify the type of organism, and give an example of an organism at each level.