The Food Web
primary consumer
What is any animal that eats a producer.
Total amount of energy that producers can capture from the sun
What is Gross primary productivity (GPP)?
Secondary consumer
What is any animal that eats a primary consumers or herbivores.
99% of heat is lost through.....
What is cell respiration?
Tertiary
What is an animal that eats almost solely secondary and primary consumers.
The remaining 1% of energy stored as leaves, fruits, and roots
What is Net primary productivity (NPP)?
Apex Predator
What is the top of the food chain, has no natural predators
The amount of energy left from energy transfer
What is 10%?
Most common level
Producers
With each energy transformation, energy is lost as
What is heat?