Feeding Trophic Levels Flashcards
What is the easiest way to describe these relationships
A food chain
What is a food chain
Food chains do not exist in nature there used simple feeding relationships.
What is a trophic level
It is the feeding level used to describe the position of an organism along the food chain.
What is a food web
It is a series of interconnected food chains
What is the bottom of food
Producers, plants and algae that can photosynthesize.
What is a species niche
Is what a species feeds on, what it eats and how it behaves.
What is photosynthesis… Food web
Producers take carbon dioxide out of the air, water from the ground and use the Suns energy to make sugar (glucose)and starches for the animals to eat them.
What are primary consumers
Plant eaters are primary consumers because they eat or consume plants.
What are some examples of primary consumers
Rabbits mice deer and caterpillars.
What are herbivores
They are secondary consumers. Animals that eat the plant eaters.
Examples of secondary consumers
Foxes, wolves, Robbins and snakes
What is the top level of the food chain
It is tertiary consumers.
What are some examples of tertiary consumers
Hocks, humans and tigers.
What animal is difficult to classify
Bears because they eat everything including berries, insects and mice. They are usually found it at the highest level of the food chain.
What is a decomposer
Decomposers. are a separate category, breaking down all of the other levels when they die.
