10.3 Transfer and Trophic Levels

Question 1

Trophic levels

Answer 1

producers primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, quaternary consumers; where a species is on a food chain

Question 2

autotroph

Answer 2

producers

Question 3

heterotroph

Answer 3

consumers

Question 4

herbivore

Answer 4

only eats plants

Question 5

carnivore

Answer 5

only eats animals

Question 6

omnivore

Answer 6

eats plants and animals

Question 7

detrivore

Answer 7

eats dead matter

Question 8

keystone species

Answer 8

a species that has an influential ecological role and increases biodiversity

Question 9

invasive species

Answer 9

a non-native species that out-competes native species and decrease biodiversity

Question 10

food web: producers

Answer 10

at the bottom; don’t eat anything

Question 11

food web: primary consumers

Answer 11

anything that eats a producer

Question 12

food web: secondary consumers

Answer 12

anything that eats a primary consumer

Question 13

food web: tertiary consumers

Answer 13

anything that eats a secondary consumer

Question 14

food web: quaternary consumers

Answer 14

anything that eats a tertiary consumer

Question 15

Trophic Cascade: direct effect

Answer 15

affects the Trophic levels directly above or directly below

Question 16

Trophic Cascade: indirect effect

Answer 16

affects the trophic levels not directly above or directly below

Question 17

Trophic Cascade: solid arrow

Answer 17

direct effect

Question 18

Trophic Cascade: dashed arrow

Answer 18

indirect effect

Question 19

Trophic Cascade: plus sign

Answer 19

positive effect

Question 20

Trophic Cascade: minus sign

Answer 20

negative effect

Question 21

food web vs Trophic Cascade model

Answer 21

food web: what eats what
Trophic Cascade: the effects of what eats what on the ecosystem