Topic 19

Question 1

Food chain

Answer 1

Showing the transfer of energy from one organism to the next, beginning with producers.

Question 2

Trophic level

Answer 2

The position of an organism in a food chain, food web, pyramid of numbers of biomass.

Question 3

Food web

Answer 3

A network of interconnected food chains.

Question 4

Producer

Answer 4

An organism that makes its own organic nutrients, usually using energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis.

Question 5

Consumers

Answer 5

An organism that gets its energy by feeding on other organism.

Question 6

Herbivore

Answer 6

An animal that gets its energy by eating plants.

Question 7

Carnivore

Answer 7

An animal that gets its energy by eating other animals.

Question 8

Decomposer

Answer 8

An organism that gets its energy from dead or waste organic material.

Question 9

Population

Answer 9

A group of organisms of on species, living in the same area, at the same time.

Question 10

Community

Answer 10

All of the populations of different species in an ecosystem.

Question 11

Ecosystem

Answer 11

A unit containing the community of organisms and their environment, interacting together.