The Food Chain and Food Web

Question 1

A ___________ is a series of steps showing the process of energy transfer in the ecosystem.

Answer 1

food chain

Question 2

A food chain has

Answer 2

producers, consumers, and decomposers

Question 3

Consumers are named _______________ depending on what they eat.

Answer 3

primary, secondary, or tertiary

Question 4

Primary consumers are organisms that eat plants

Answer 4

herbivores

Question 5

Secondary consumers feed on?

Answer 5

Primary consumers

Question 6

Tertiary consumers eat either the

Answer 6

secondary or the primary consumers

Question 7

Secondary and tertiary consumers are animals that eat meat.

Answer 7

carnivores

Question 8

There are other consumers that eat both plants and animals

Answer 8

omnivores

Question 9

are organisms that depend on another organism for food. They consume decaying organisms such as dead plant and animal waste.

Answer 9

Decomposers

Question 10

a series of food chains connected to one another.

Answer 10

food web