Food Chains / Food Webs Flashcards
What is a food chain?
A food chain is a diagram that shows what living thing eats. It shows the transfer energy between living things.
What is a producer?
A producer gets its energy from the sun to the living thing and it changed into glucose by photosynthesis.
What is a herbivore?
A herbivore is an animal that just eats plants.
What is a carnivore?
This is a animal that eats other animals
What are the arrows for in a food chain?
They are to show the transfers of energy from one living thing to the other.
How many chains do food webs make?
4-5 links if there are more too little energy would be transferred.
What is a food web?
A food web shows the feeding relationships if living things more realistically than food chains.
What is a predator?
A predator is a animal that eats another animal
What is prey?
Animal that is eaten.
