Food chains & Webs

Question 1

Food Chain

Answer 1

Series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. (Each level is a trophic level)

Question 2

Food Web

Answer 2

Shows how organisms interact with/in an ecosystem using many overlapping food chains.

Question 3

Producer

Answer 3

Create their own food (glucose) using energy from the sun in the process of photosynthesis. (Producers are autotrophs)

Question 4

Consumer

Answer 4

Gets food from other source. (Consumers are heterotrophs)

Question 5

Herbivores

Answer 5

They only eat plants.

Question 6

Carnivores

Answer 6

They only eat meat.

Question 7

Scavengers

Answer 7

They are carnivores which eat the remains of dead organisms.

Question 8

Omnivores

Answer 8

They eat both plants and meat.

Question 9

Detrivores

Answer 9

They break down organic material/return nutrients to soil.

Question 10

Organic Material

Answer 10

Any carbon-based material that was once living.

Question 11

Primary Consumer

Answer 11

The first consumer to eat producers. (Can be herbivores or carnivores)

Question 12

Secondary Consumer

Answer 12

Eats the primary consumer. (Can be carnivores or omnivores)

Question 13

Tertiary Consumer

Answer 13

Eats the primary or secondary consumer, and is the “top of the food chain”. (Mostly carnivores but can be omnivores)

Question 14

Cellular Respiration

Answer 14

Process when organisms use energy in food chain to power all their daily activities.

Question 15

Trophic Levels

Answer 15

The several levels of the ecosystem

Question 16

Quaternary consumer

Answer 16

Eats the tertiary consumer, and is also top of the food chain.