Warm-up: Put the following into a food chain in order Warm-up: Put the following into a food chain in order! ** Think who eats who??? Hawk Grass Snake Mouse
The study of interactions between living and nonliving things. ECOLOGY The study of interactions between living and nonliving things.
Food Chain Food Web Energy Pyramid Producer Consumer
Food Chain
Food Chain An energy path from one organism to another showing a linked chain; each thing feeds on the one next to it in the series.
Food Web
Food Web –Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem.
Energy Pyramid A pyramid that shows how much energy transfers to the next level in a food chain.
Producer
Producers – organisms that can produce their own food, also known as autotrophs.(ex:plants)
Consumer
Consumers – organisms that have to eat their food. 1. Primary Consumers = animals that eat plants only (herbivores) 2. Secondary Consumers = animals that eat other animals (carnivores)