Unit 1: Food Chains and Webs

Question 1

Consumer

Answer 1

Organsims that are unable to make their own energy or photosynthesize consume other organsims to get energy.

Question 2

Herbivore

Answer 2

A consumer that eats producers.

Question 3

Primary Consumer

Answer 3

A consumer that eats producers.

Question 4

Carnivore

Answer 4

A consumer that eats other consumers.

Question 5

Secondary Consumer

Answer 5

Carnivores that eat primary consumers.

Question 5

Tertiary Consumer

Answer 5

Carnivores that eat secondary consumers.

Question 6

Trophic level

Answer 6

The succesive levels of organisms consuming one another.

Question 6

Food Chain

Answer 6

The sequence of consumption from producers to tertiary consumers.

Question 6

Food Web

Answer 6

A complex model of how energy and matter move between trophic levels.

Question 7

Scavenger

Answer 7

Organisms that consume dead animals.

Question 8

Decomposer

Answer 8

Bacteria that can convert organic matter into small elements that can be recycled back in the ecosystem.

Question 8

Detritvore

Answer 8

An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organic matter.