1. 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

2. The study of interactions between living and nonliving things.
ECOLOGY
The study of interactions between living and nonliving things.

3. Food Chain
Food Web
Energy Pyramid
Producer
Consumer

4. Food Chain

5. 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.

6. Food Web

7. Food Web –Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem.

8. Energy Pyramid
A pyramid that shows how much energy transfers to the next level in a food chain.

9. Producer

11. Producers – organisms that can produce their own food, also known as autotrophs.(ex:plants)

12. Consumer

13. 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)