Energy Transfers Definitions

Question 1

Food Chain

Answer 1

Shows the feeding relationship between producers and consumers

Question 2

Food web

Answer 2

More accurate demonstration of feeding relationships
Links food chains of one habitat together

Question 3

Producers

Answer 3

Photosynthetic organisms that produce organic substances using light energy, water, CO2, and mineral ions

Question 4

Primary consumer

Answer 4

Organism in the food chain that directly obtains its energy by feeding on the producer
The first consumer/ animal in the food chain

Question 5

Secondary consumer

Answer 5

Second consumer in the food chain
Feeds on the primary consumer

Question 6

Tertiary consumer

Answer 6

Third consumer in the food chain
Feeds on the secondary consumer

Question 7

Trophic level

Answer 7

Position in a food chain occupied by a producer or a consumer

Question 8

Herbivore

Answer 8

Plant eating consumer

Question 9

Carnivore

Answer 9

Meat eating consumer

Question 10

Omnivore

Answer 10

Consumer that eats both plants and animals

Question 11

Habitat

Answer 11

Place where an organism normally lives and which is characterised by physical conditions and the types of other organisms present

Question 12

Ecosystem

Answer 12

All the living and non-living components of a particular area

Question 13

Biomass

Answer 13

The total mass of living material, normally measured in a specific area over a time period