Energy flow

Question 0

What are animals that feed on other a animals called

Answer 0

Carnivores

Question 1

What are animals that feed on plants called

Answer 1

Herbivores

Question 2

What is a carnivore that kills the animal they eat called

Answer 2

Predators

Question 3

What is the animal that a predator kills and eat called

Answer 3

Prey

Question 4

What is an animal that eats plants and animal called

Answer 4

Omnivores

Question 5

What is the producer of a food chain called

Answer 5

Green plants as they produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis

Question 6

What is the source of energy for a food chain

Answer 6

The sun

Question 7

What are animals in a food chain

Answer 7

The consumers

Question 8

What is a herbivore in a food chain

Answer 8

The primary consumer

Question 9

What is a carnivore in a food chain called

Answer 9

The secondary consumer

Question 10

What is the larger carnivore in the food chain that eats the secondary consumer called

Answer 10

The tertiary consumer

Question 11

What do we call a food chains linked together

Answer 11

A food web

Question 12

Chemicals get more concentrated as they pass through the food web what is this called

Answer 12

Bioaccumulation

Question 13

As you moved along the food chain what happens to the level of pesticide

Answer 13

The level of pesticide increases

Question 14

What do the arrows in the food chain represent

Answer 14

The flow of energy

Question 15

What is the difference between a food chain and a food web

Answer 15

A food chain shows the transfer of energy between organisms symbolised by arrows food chains are interlinked to form food webs

Question 16

How do organisms lose energy

Answer 16

When an organism respires some energy is lost as heat

Energy lost to maintain and repair cells

Lost in movement and to maintain body temperature

Energy lost in waste as they cannot digest every part of food they eat

Question 17

When carnivores eat an animal what don’t they usually eat

Answer 17

Bones

Question 18

When herbivores eat plants what don’t they usually eat

Answer 18

Roots and shoots

Question 19

What type of energy is not wasted in the food chain

Answer 19

Energy that organisms use for growth as it is more for the predator to eat

Question 20

How much stages does a food chain usually go on for

Answer 20

Four or five stages

Question 21

What happens to the animals as you go down the food chain

Answer 21

The populations get smaller as there isn’t as much energy to digest

Question 22

What does the height and width represent in the ecological pyramid

Answer 22

The width of each block is the proportional to the total number/mass of the organisms in each stage

The height means nothing

Question 23

What is a ecological pyramid

Answer 23

They show the population size of each organism in each stage of a food web

Question 24

What are the two pyramids called

Answer 24

The pyramid of number which record the numbers in each stage

The pyramid of biomass which record the total mass of the population at each stage of the food chain