Part 4: What is a food web? Flashcards
1
Q
- What is a food web?
A
a. A network of food chains in a biome
2. What are the levels in a food web?
2
Q
- What are the levels in a food web?
A
a. Primary producers
b. Primary consumers
c. Secondary consumers
d. Tertiary consumers
e. Detrivores
3
Q
- What is an animal called when it is eaten by another animal?
A
a. Prey
4
Q
- What is an animal which eats another animal called?
A
a. Carnivore
5
Q
- What is an animal which eats plants called?
A
a. Carnivore
6
Q
- What is a primary producer?
A
a. Plants
b. E.g. trees
7
Q
- What is a primary consumer?
A
a. An animal which eats plants
b. E.g. ants
8
Q
- What is a secondary consumer?
A
a. A carnivore
b. E.g. birds
9
Q
- What is a tertiary consumer?
A
a. A top carnivore
b. E.g. a jaguar
10
Q
- What is a detrivore?
A
a. Decomposers
b. E.g. fungi
11
Q
- What are food webs like in the rainforest?
A
a. Complex
12
Q
- Why are food webs complex?
A
a. The climate is hot and wet
b. There is a lot of biomass (plants and animals)
c. Some animals only eat particular plants or animals
