Y10 1) Feeding Relationships and Cycles

Question 1

What is a food chain?

Answer 1

A food chain shows the energy transfer (what is eaten by what) in an ecosystem.

Question 2

The arrows in a food chain shows what?

Answer 2

The arrows show the direction of energy transfer (who eats who).

Question 3

What does Trophic level mean?

Answer 3

The different stages in a food chain

Question 4

What does producer mean?

Answer 4

Green plants which photosynthesise to make their own food from the sun (light energy converted to chemical energy)

Question 5

What does primary consumer mean?

Answer 5

The animal that eats the producer

Question 6

What does secondary consumer mean?

Answer 6

The animal that eats the primary consumer

Question 7

What does Tertiary consumer mean?

Answer 7

The animal that eats the secondary consumer

Question 8

What does Decomposers mean?

Answer 8

Microorganisms, e.g. bacteria that digest (break down) dead material and waste

Question 9

What does Consumer mean?

Answer 9

An organism that eats another organism

Question 10

What does Herbivore mean

Answer 10

An animal that eats plants

Question 11

What does Carnivore mean?

Answer 11

An animal that eats another animal