Food Webs

Question 1

What is a Food Web?

Answer 1

A diagram showing how organisms in an ecosystem are connected through feeding relationships.

Question 2

Define Producers

Answer 2

Organisms like plants and phytoplankton that create food through photosynthesis.

Question 3

Primary Consumers (Herbivore)

Answer 3

Animals that eat producers, like rabbits and deer.

Question 4

Secondary Consumers (Carnivores)

Answer 4

Animals that eat primary consumers, like foxes and birds.

Question 5

Tertiary Consumers

Answer 5

Top predators that eat secondary consumers, like eagles.

Question 6

Role of Decomposers

Answer 6

Organisms like bacteria and fungi that break down dead matter, recycling nutrients into the ecosystem.

Question 7

Predation

Answer 7

One organism (predator) hunts and eats another (prey), e.g., a hawk eating a mouse.

Question 8

Competition

Answer 8

Organisms competing for resources, like two bird species for seeds.

Question 9

Mutualism

Answer 9

Both species benefit, e.g., bees pollinate flowers while getting nectar.

Question 10

Parasitism

Answer 10

One organism benefits at the expense of another, like a tick on a mammal.

Question 11

Commensalim

Answer 11

One organism benefits while the other is unaffected, like barnacles on a whale.