Food chains and food webs

Question 1

Food chain

Answer 1

A the energy flow from one organism to the next

Question 2

Food web

Answer 2

Multiple food chains

Question 3

Primary consumer

Answer 3

Something that eats the producer. They are herbivores

Question 4

Secondary consumer

Answer 4

They eat the primary consumer and sometimes eat the producer. They can be omnivores

Question 5

Tertiary consumer

Answer 5

They eat the primary and secondary consumer. They are normally carnivores

Question 6

Producer

Answer 6

Any living thing that produces its own food

Question 7

Herbivores

Answer 7

An animal that only eats plants

Question 8

Carnivores

Answer 8

An animal that only eats animals

Question 9

Omnivores

Answer 9

An animal that eats plants and animals

Question 10

Decomposer

Answer 10

A organism that gets it’s energy by breaking down dead matter and waste products.

Question 11

Predator

Answer 11

An animal that is eating another

Question 12

Prey

Answer 12

An animal that is being eaten.

Question 13

Predator-prey relationship

Answer 13

A organism hunting another

Question 14

cannibalism

Answer 14

When the prey and predator are from the same species

Question 15

Apex predator

Answer 15

The top of the food chain

Question 16

Ecological pyramids

Answer 16

Diagrams to show relationships between organism

Question 17

Trophic level

Answer 17

Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer