Ecosystems

Question 1

What are the levels in food chains?

Answer 1

1. Producers
2. Primary consumers
3. Secondary consumers
4. Tertiary consumers
5. Quaternary consumers

Question 2

What are producers?

Answer 2

1. Producers are the start of every food chain.

2. Are known as autotrophic because they make their own food (glucose) through photosynthesis.

Question 3

What are consumers?

Answer 3

Consumers are heterotrophic organisms b/c they cannot produce their own food, and instead obtain food energy by consuming other organisms
.

Question 4

What do food chains show?

Answer 4

1. Show the route biomass can tak through an ecosystem. They always start with producers
2. Each organism will represent a population.

Question 5

What do food webs show?

Answer 5

1. The feeding relationships within an ecosystem.
2. Multiple food chains an how they interlink
3. Competition for resources and interdependence

Question 6

What is glucose used to make?

Answer 6

1. Polymers like cellulose for growth and starch for storage.
2. Glycerol and fatty acids - these combine to make lipids, which are used for storage and for making cell membranes.
3. Amino acids - these join together to make structural and functional proteins.

Question 7

How are carbohydrates broken down?

Answer 7

An enzyme called amylase breaks down carbohydrates into sugars like glucose.

Question 8

How are lipids broken down?

Answer 8

An enzyme called lipase breaks down lipids into fatty acids and glycerol.

Question 9

How are proteins broken down?

Answer 9

An enzyme called protease breaks down proteins into amino acids.