Ecology

Question 1

Food Web

Answer 1

Consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem

Question 2

Food Chain

Answer 2

One possible path that energy and nutrients may take as they move through the ecosystem

Question 3

Trophic Level

Answer 3

The grouping for organisms in a food web based on their role

Question 4

Producers

Answer 4

Make their own food and do not depend on any other organism for nutrition

Question 5

Autotrophs

Answer 5

Make their own food and do not depend on any other organism for nutrition

Question 6

Consumers

Answer 6

Animals that eat producers

Question 7

Carnivore

Answer 7

Animals that eat other animals

Question 8

Omnivore

Answer 8

Animals that eat both plants and animals

Question 9

Primary consumers

Answer 9

Are herbivores, eat plants and other producers

Question 10

Herbivore

Answer 10

Eat plants, algae, and other producers

Question 11

Secondary consumers

Answer 11

Eat the herbivores or primary consumers

Question 12

Tertiary consumers

Answer 12

Eat the secondary consumers

Question 13

Apex Predator

Answer 13

Top consumer or top predator

Question 14

Detritivores

Answer 14

Organisms that eat plants, algae, and other producers remains (a scavenger)

Question 15

Scavenger

Answer 15

Organisms that eat plants, algae, and other producers remains

Question 16

Decomposers

Answer 16

Break down dead organisms into nutrient rich soil for use by producers