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Ecosystems and Energy

Flow Task Cards

Includes the following:

-Producers, Consumers, Decomposers

-Herbivores, Omnivores, Carnivores

-Food Chains, Webs, and Energy Pyramids

-Primary and Secondary Succession

-Abiotic and Biotic Factors

-Ecosystems Vocabulary

-And More!!!

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The picture below shows an

example of a producer. What is a PRODUCER?


example of a consumer. What is a CONSUMER?


example of a decomposer. What is a DECOMPOSER?


example of a scavenger. What is a SCAVENGER?

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What term is used to describe

a consumer that feeds on plants only?


a consumer that feeds on animals only?


a consumer that feeds on plants AND animals?


a series of events in which one

organism eats another in order to obtain energy?





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Where does all of the energy within an ecosystem originate?

In the food chain below, which

organism would be a primary consumer?

In the food chain below,

which organism would be a secondary consumer?

What term is used to describe many overlapping food chains?





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In the food web below, which

organism feeds on the largest variety organisms?

List one food chain from the food web below?

What is the term used to describe

a diagram that shows the

amount of energy that moves

from one feeding level to another in a food web?

Where is the most energy found in an energy pyramid?

Hawks

Mice

Grass





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If birds eat insects that feed on corn,

which pyramid level would birds occupy?

Which level in the energy pyramid

below would represent a third level (tertiary) consumer?

What is the process shown in the diagram below?


all of the members of one species in a particular area?

A

B

C

D

ABC

D

Energy (sunlight)+

Water+

Carbon Dioxide

Taken in Given off

Food+

Oxygen





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all of the different populations that live together in an area?


all of the living and nonliving things that interact in an area?

What type of factor is a living part of an ecosystem?

What type of factor is a nonliving part of an ecosystem?





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What is the place an organism

lives that provides the things that it needs to survive?

A series of predictable changes

that occur in a community over time is known as _______________.

Explain primary succession in your own words.

Explain secondary succession in your own words.

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Is the following an example of primary or secondary succession?

An undersea volcano forming a

new island ecosystem over many

years.

Which type of succession occurs more rapidly?

Primary

or

Secondary

What do the arrows in a food web/chain represent?

Is the following an example of primary or secondary succession?

A large flood destroying a portion

of an ecosystem and the

ecosystem regrows after many

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Ecosystems and Energy Flow Task Cards:

Answer Key 1. An organism that

can make its own

food by carrying out

photosynthesis.

9. The Sun 17. C 25. Habitat

2. An organism that

obtains energy by

feeding on other

organisms.

10. Grasshopper 18. D 26. Succession

3. An organism that

breaks down waste

and dead organisms

and returns the raw

materials back to

the environment.

11. Whale 19. Photosynthesis 27. A series of

predictable changes

that occur over time

in an area where no

ecosystem previously

existed.

4. A carnivore that

feeds on the bodies

of dead animals.

12. Food Web 20. Population 28. A series of events

that occur after a

disturbance in an

existing ecosystem.

5. Herbivore 13. Hawks 21. Community 29. Primary

succession

6. Carnivore 14. Answers may

vary (ex. grass,

grasshopper, frog,

fox)

22. Ecosystem 30. Secondary

succession

7. Omnivore 15. Energy Pyramid 23. Biotic factor 31. Secondary

succession

8. Food Chain 16. Producer level,

bottom, grass

24. Abiotic factor 32. The direction of

the flow of energy

from one organism

to another.

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