Food Web and Food Chains

Question 0

What happened to energy as it flows through a food web?

Answer 0

It keeps going until the consumer dies and decomposed take it down or when the food chain is removed or added to it . It stays the same as long as nothing eats it .

Question 1

Why are food chains especially useful for describing the relationships of specialist?

Answer 1

Because they only eat a limited variety of organisms , thus it shows those organisms .

Question 2

What is a food chain ?

Answer 2

Model that shows how energy passes from one organism to another .

Question 3

What is a food web?

Answer 3

A series of overlapping or connected food chains that exist in an ecosystem.

Question 4

What is the 10%?

Answer 4

Only about 10% of the energy consumed by a first level consumer is available for the second level consumer .

Question 5

Primary Consumers

Answer 5

Are usually herbivores feeding on plants and fungus. Ex: Rabbits, Grasshoppers.

Question 6

Secondary Consumers

Answer 6

Omnivores who feed on both plants and animals . Ex: Rat, Fish

Question 7

What is the main source of all energy for life on earth?

Answer 7

The sun

Question 8

How does energy flow through ecosystems?

Answer 8

Energy flows through an ecosystem in one direction.

Question 9

What is a tropic level ?

Answer 9

Each feeding step in a energy pyramid, food chain or food web represents a tropic level, which is the passage of energy and materials .