Food Chain & Food Web

Question 1

Organisms that can manufacture their own food. These organisms trap the energy from the sun and convert it to compounds they need to grow.

Answer 1

Producers or Autotrophs

Question 2

Organisms that obtain their energy needs by eating plants and other animals and cannot make their own food.

Answer 2

Consumers

Question 3

Organisms that directly feed on the producer

Answer 3

Herbivores

Question 4

Organisms that eat animals.

Answer 4

Carnivores

Question 5

Organisms that eat both plants and animals.

Answer 5

Omnivores

Question 6

An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem.

Answer 6

Decomposers

Question 7

It consists of the sequence of organisms that eat other organisms through which energy is transferred.

Answer 7

Food chain

Question 8

It consists of several interlocking food chains. It is a more complex pattern of energy transfer.

Answer 8

Food Web