Food Chains Flashcards
1
Q
Give features of a producer?
A
Food chains always start with producers
They make their own food using energy from the sun
Usually green plants or algae
2
Q
What is biomass?
A
The mass of living things
Can be thought as energy stored in a plant
3
Q
How does the food chain work?
What consumes what
A
Producers<Primary consumers
Primary consumers<Secondary consumers
Secondary consumers<tertiary consumers
4
Q
What does predator mean?
A
Consumers that hunt and kill other animals
5
Q
What does prey mean?
A
The predators food:)
6
Q
What are the trends of population of prey and predators?
A
If the population of prey increases,then so will the predators
As the population of predators increase, the number of prey decrease
