Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Food Chains
Food Webs
Misc.
100
Why are plants called producers?
They make their own food.
100
What are prey hunted by?
Predators
100
Give an example of a decomposer.
worms, bacteria, fungi, etc.
100
What are food webs made of?
Many food chains
100
What do all food chains and food webs begin with?
Sun
200
What is an organism called that gets energy by eating other animals?
A consumer
200
What do predators hunt?
Prey
200
What is the name of the first animal in a food chain?
Primary consumer
200
Name a herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore
herbivore - mouse
omnivore - rabbit
carnivore - owl
200
Create a food chain with the following organisms. worm, grass, wild dog, lion, sun, zebra, Hyena
sun, grass, zebra, wild dog, lion, hyena, worm
Be sure to have arrows!!
300
Animals that only eat plants
Herbivore
300
Why do animals eat one another and plants?
They need to eat things to get energy, otherwise known as consumers
300
What is the name of the second animal in a food chain that eats the primary consumer?
Secondary Consumer
300
Name a primary consumer, secondary consumer, and a tertiary consumer
Primary- mouse
Secondary - snake
Tertiary - Kite
300
What do the arrows in a food chain or food web show?
The arrows show the flow of energy
400
Animals that only eat meat
carnivore
400
What is the name of the highest animal in the food chain?
Apex predator
400
What is the name of the highest consumer in the food chain?
Tertiary consumer
400
What would happen if a plant or animal was taken out of the food web?
Animals would not get eaten so they would overpopulate
or
there wouldn't be enough plants making oxygen making it hard for humans to breathe and live
400
What is the difference between scavengers and decomposers?
Scavengers eat dead flesh while decomposers feed on and break down dead organisms
500
What is an omnivore?
an organism that eats both plants and animals
500
an arrangement of the organisms in an ecological community according to the order of predation (what eats what?); a strand within the food web that shows how energy is passed from one living thing to another
grass→deer →grey wolf
Food chains
500
Give an example of a scavenger in a food chain.
snail, vulture, coyote etc.
500
interacting food chains in an ecological community; shows how more than one animal feeds upon a producer and how energy is passed through organisms (overlapping food chains)
Food webs
500
What is the difference between food chains and food webs?
Food webs contain multiple food chains so they are much larger