Food Webs
What do omnivores eat?
Both, Plants and Animals
True or False Food chains go in 1 direction and food webs travel in many directions.
What is True
What happens to an ecosystem after a natural disaster like a forest fire or volcanic eruption?
Secondary Succession
Conservation includes, reduce, reuse, and recycle. Why are these things important for humans to consider.
Less pollution in the air, water, and land. It saves energy as well as space in landfills. Pollution can destroy habitats and ecosystems.
What is the tertiary consumer?
What is a third level consumer
When one organism is benefitted and the other is harmed. Plus name one example.
What is a parasitism?
Tick, Flea, Tapeworm, Mistletoe
These animals are at the bottom of the food chain.
What is the primary consumers?
These are the recyclers of the food web. They help return nutrients to the soil so plants can grow again.
What are decomposers
When one organism is benefitted and the other is not affected.
What is a commensalism?
A network of interactions living or non-living.
What is an Ecosystem?
What is the role of producers in food chains and food webs?
This provides nutrients to all animals. They make food from the sun's energy through photosynthesis.
True or false Producers can be eaten by more than 1 consumer.
What is True
algae > minnows > bass > snapping turtles
How would this food chain be affected by pollution killing half the minnows in the pond?
Bass would have to complete for food and their population would decrease followed by the snapping turtles.
Algae would increase
These consumers are at the top of the food chain.
What is a quaternary consumer or apex?