Food Webs and Dinosaurs

Question 0

When did they first appear in the fossil record?

Answer 0

250-300 mya

Question 1

What does the term dinosaur mean and refer to?

Answer 1

Terrible Lizard, and refers to a small group of organisms.

Question 2

What are dinosaurs who only eat plants called?

Answer 2

Herbivores

Question 3

What are dinosaurs who only eat meat called?

Answer 3

Carnivores

Question 4

What are dinosaurs who eat both meat and plants called?

Answer 4

Omnivores

Question 5

What is a food chain?

Answer 5

A sequence of who eats who in a biological community to obtain nutrition

Question 6

What does the food chain start with?

Answer 6

Normally the sun

Question 7

What is the primary producer in a food chain?

Answer 7

A plant that uses photosynthesis as nutrition.

Question 8

What are the organisms that eat the primary producers called?

Answer 8

Primary consumers

Question 9

What are the animals that eat the primary consumers called?

Answer 9

Secondary consumers

Question 10

These animals are then eaten by even larger consumers, called what?

Answer 10

Tertiary consumers

Question 11

What are tertiary consumers eaten by?

Answer 11

Quaternary consumers, or the top predator.

Question 12

Which section of the food chain has no enemies?

Answer 12

The top predator.

Question 13

In the dinosaur world what would have been the top predator?

Answer 13

T-Rex

Question 14

What do the arrows in a food chain show?

Answer 14

The flow of energy

Question 15

How much energy is lost at each step and why?

Answer 15

90%, and because of having to carry out the seven life processes.

Question 16

What is the trophic level of an organism?

Answer 16

The position it holds in a food chain

Question 17

What is a network of many food chains called

Answer 17

A food web

Question 18

The number of organisms at each trophic level tends to decrease, why?

Answer 18

Because there is not enough energy to support large number of these higher consumers.

Question 19

What could be the primary producer in a pyramid of numbers that isn’t shaped like a pyramid?

Answer 19

Oak trees