Food Webs/ Chains And Animals

Question 1

Tertiary consumer:

Answer 1

An animal (top consumer) that eats secondary consumers

Question 2

Herbivore:

Answer 2

Animals that almost eats only plants

Question 3

Producer:

Answer 3

Usually plants. Start off the food chain.
They are organism capable of making their own food by photosynthesis e.g. green plants, seaweeds and plankton. Energy is then stored in the chemical bonds of glucose and starch.

Question 4

Secondary consumer:

Answer 4

An animal that eats primary consumers e.g. carnivores and scavengers

Question 5

Omnivore:

Answer 5

Eats both animals and plants

Question 6

Carnivore:

Answer 6

Eats almost only animals

Question 7

Primary consumer:

Answer 7

An animal that eats producers e.g. herbivores, decomposers, detritius feeders

Question 8

E.g of carnivore

Answer 8

Common seal

Question 9

E.g of herbivore

Answer 9

Grey mullet

Question 10

E.g of producer

Answer 10

Bladderwrack

Question 11

E.g of primary consumer

Answer 11

Flat winkle

Question 12

E.g of secondary consumer

Answer 12

Crab

Question 13

E.g of tertiary consumer

Answer 13

Herring gull

Question 14

What do the arrows in a food chain represent?

Answer 14

Is eaten by

Question 15

Top consumer:

Answer 15

The last animal in a food chain

Question 16

Prey:

Answer 16

And animal that is caught and eaten by another animal

Question 17

Nocturnal animals:

Answer 17

Creatures that are active at night

Question 18

Predator:

Answer 18

An animal that catches and eats other animals

Question 19

Food chain:

Answer 19

A way of showing what eats what in a habitat.
It begins with a plant and shows how food/ energy is passed through series of organisms in a community

Question 20

Food web:

Answer 20

Many food chains linked together.
This is a chart showing all the feeding connections in the habitat/ environment.
Constructed by showing the links between all the interconnecting food chains in the habitat.

Question 21

Chemical energy:

Answer 21

A stored form of energy found in food

Question 22

What is the primary source of energy on our planet?

Answer 22

The sun

Question 23

What are consumers?

Answer 23

Consumers are organisms that feed on the other organisms. They cannot make their own food. There are 3 types.

Question 24

What are primary producers?

Answer 24

They are the first members of the food chain

Question 25

E.g. of decomposers:

Answer 25

Worm, bacteria, mushroom and instect

Question 26

When does a food chain end?

Answer 26

It ends when there’s not enough energy to support another organism

Question 27

E.g. of food chain:

Answer 27

Grass (gives food to) = Rabbit (gives food to) = Fox

Question 28

What is a grazing food chain?

Answer 28

A grazing food chain is one where the initial plant is living

Question 29

E.g. of grazing food:

Answer 29

Grass = grasshoppers = frogs = hawks

Question 30

Energy _____ or transfer through an ____ is achieved by ______.

Answer 30

Flow, ecosystem, feeding