Environmental Science
•Please have a seat and take some time to look over the
notes worksheet. Look at the diagrams, and take a close
look at the vocabulary words. If you can use prior
knowledge to place any of the vocabulary words on the
pyramid diagram, feel free to do so.
.
 Food Chain = Flow of
energy through
trophic levels.
 Trophic Level =
Position on a food
chain based on how an
organism gets energy.
 Food Web = Complex
interactions between
predators and prey
represented by arrows.
Shows several
intertwined food
chains.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U60obmWODLQ
 Producers
 Consumers
 Carnivore
 Scavenger
 Predator
 Herbivore
 Omnivore
 Parasite
 Organisms that produce their own food (autotrophs)
 Organisms that cannot make
their own food (heterotrophs)
 A plant eating organism
A flesh eating organism
 Predators- hunt and kill prey
for food
 Scavengers- eat dead animals
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 An organism that eats both plants and animals
 Organisms that use dead organisms as food and return elements to the
earth.
 Lives off of another
organism (its host)
 Kelp Forest Video
 Free Willy
 Killer Whale Video
 Killer Whale/ Blue Whale
 Put your name at the top of your sticky note.
 On your sticky note…
 Draw a food chain pyramid, explaining each level to the
best of your ability. Please give an example of an
organisms in each level.
 Also, what can you tell me about the transfer of energy
between each trophic level?
 When the bell rings, hand in your paperwork and
place your sticky note on the door as you leave the
room.
 Have a nice day!!!