Food Chains, Webs, Etc.

Question 1

Food Web

Answer 1

A lot of food chains combined all together in the same environment

Question 2

How is a food chain organized?

Answer 2

Sun, producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, decomposers or scavengers

Question 3

What part of food chains and webs allow everything to occur?

Answer 3

The sun

Question 4

Food chain

Answer 4

A linear diagram that shows what an organism eats and is eaten by in its environment

Question 5

What is the coding chart?

Answer 5

Carnivore 1
Herbivore 2
Omnivore 3
Producer 4
Consumer 5
Predator 6
Prey 7

Question 6

Code the following…

Shark (eats fur seal)

Answer 6

1567

Carnivore, consumer, predator, prey

Question 7

Code the following…

Seaweed (photosynthesis)

Answer 7

47

Producer, prey

Question 8

Code the following...
Killer Whale (eats dolphin, algae)

Answer 8

356

Omnivore, consumer, predator

Question 9

Code the following…

Blue Footed Booby (eats tiger fish)

Answer 9

1567

Carnivore, consumer, predator, prey

Question 10

Code the following…

Angelfish (eats ceramium)

Answer 10

2567

Herbivore, consumer, predator, prey

Question 11

Code the following…

Squid (eats plankton, algae)

Answer 11

3567

Omnivore, consumer, predator, prey

Question 12

Energy pyramid

Answer 12

Diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

Question 13

Where is the most energy available?

Answer 13

Producer level of the pyramid.

Question 14

About how much energy at one level of the food web transfers to the next?

Answer 14

10%. The rest is lost at each step.

Question 15

What do all living things depend on?

Answer 15

Plants

Question 16

What do decomposers eat?

Answer 16

Dead things

Question 17

What can’t the top of the food web survive without?

Answer 17

The bottom (producers)

Question 18

Sun

Answer 18

Provides the energy

Question 19

Primary consumer

Answer 19

Herbivores and omnivores

Depend on others for food and energy

Question 20

Secondary consumer

Answer 20

Carnivores and omnivores

Depend on others for food and energy

Question 21

Producers

Answer 21

Ex. Trees, plants, algae

Makes own food

Question 22

Decomposers or scavengers

Answer 22

Ex. Fungus, maggots, vultures

Breaks stuff down

Question 23

Compare and contrast food chains and webs

Answer 23

Similar because they both show predator prey relationships and include the sun as energy. Different because food chain is a linear diagram and a food web is many food chains jumbled together and also is a more accurate portrayal of nature

Question 24

What is another word for a feeding level?

Answer 24

Trophic level