Food web example

Question 1

Why is the black-tailed prairie dog both a primary consumer and a secondary consumer?

Answer 1

Because it eats producers (goldenrod) and primary consumers (grasshopper).

Question 2

What is different about the bee as a primary consumer compared to the
deer as a primary consumer?

Answer 2

Bee: doesn’t transfer energy after praire rose.
Deer: transfers energy to coyote.

Question 3

What are the top predators in this food web?

Answer 3

Coyote and red-tailed hawk.

Question 4

In this drawing of the food web, two important parts were left out. Can you think of what they are? Look at questions 7. b. and 7.d.xi to figure it out.

Answer 4

No Sun and decomposers shown.