Energy Flow in Ecosystems

an organism that can make its own food

• carnivore

• omnivore

• producer

• scavenger

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

an organism that must obtain energy by eating other organisms.

• producer

• decomposer

• oxygen

• consumer

All energy originates or comes from the

• air

• gases

• soil

• sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

organisms that eat only animals

• carnivore

• producer

• omnivore

• decomposers

carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead animals

• producer

• omnivore

• herbivore

• scavenger

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

organisms that break down waste of dead animals and return the nutrients to the ecosystem

• herbivore

• decomposer

• carnivore

• producers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a series of events in which one organism eats another and gains energy

• food web

• food chain

• photosynthesis

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

• food chain

• food web

• scavenger

• photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another

• herbivore

• sunlight

• organism

• energy pyramid

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

where is the most energy available within an Energy Pyramid

• 1st level consumers

• 2nd level consumers

• producers

• decomposers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6