Food Chain Vocab

Question 1

Food Chain

Answer 1

Hierarchical series of organism each dependent on the next as a source of food

Question 2

Food Web

Answer 2

All the interconnected and overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

Question 3

Producer

Answer 3

Organism that makes its own food (autotroph)

Question 4

Secondary Consumer

Answer 4

Carnivores that feed on primary consumers or herbivores

Question 5

Tertiary Consumer

Answer 5

Animals that eat the secondary consumers in a food chain

Question 6

Trophic Level

Answer 6

The position of an organism in a food web or chain

Question 7

Trophic Cascade

Answer 7

Series of changes in the population size of organisms at different trophic levels in a food chain

Question 8

Trophic Level Efficiency

Answer 8

Efficiency at which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next predation

Question 9

Apex Predator

Answer 9

A predator at the top of the food chain

Question 10

Autotroph

Answer 10

Organism that makes its own nutrients

Question 11

Carnivore

Answer 11

Animals that feeds on flesh

Question 12

Herbivore

Answer 12

Animal that feeds on plants

Question 13

Decomposer

Answer 13

An organism that decomposes organic material

Question 14

Energy Pyramid

Answer 14

Describes the way energy flows in an ecosystem

Question 15

Primary Consumer

Answer 15

Consumes primary producers

Question 16

Omnivore

Answer 16

Eats plants and flesh

Question 17

Numbers Pyramid

Answer 17

Shows the population or abundance of individual organisms at each level in a food chain

Question 18

Heterotroph

Answer 18

Cannot make its own food, eats other organisms to survive