food chains

Question 1

what do food chains begin with?

Answer 1

a producer

Question 2

what is a producer?

Answer 2

photosynthetic organisms who make glucose through photosynthesis

Question 3

how is energy transferred through a food chain?

Answer 3

energy is transferred through living organisms in an ecosystem when organisms eat other organisms

Question 4

describe the cycle of a food chain?

Answer 4

producers are eaten by primary consumers
primary consumers are eaten by secondary consumers
secondary consumers are eaten by tertiary consumers

Question 5

describe how a stable community shows population cycles between prey and predators when the population of prey increases?

Answer 5

as population of prey increases, population of predators will increase as there is more food available
however, this will result in number of prey decreasing after some time as more prey would be consumed by the increases number of predators

Question 6

what happens when there is not enough prey to feed all the predators?

Answer 6

population of predators will decrease which will allow population of prey to increase again