Food webs Flashcards
What are food webs?
Interlinked food chains
Give stages in a food web.
Producer > Primary consumer > Secondary consumer > tertiary consumer > Top carnivor
Give the nine bits of terminology and meaning
Producer - all plants.
> use sun energy to produce food energy
Herbivore - animals that only eat plants
Consumer - all animals are consumers
Primary consumer - animal that eats producers/ plants
Secondary consumer - animal eats primary consumers
Tertiary consumer - animal eats secondary consumer
Carnivore - Eats only animals not plants
Top carnivore - is not eaten by anything else
Omnivore - eats both plants and animals
What are food webs?
Interdependent
What happens if there is a change in one organism in the food web?
it affects others