Food Webs
Name 2 primary consumers
Anything the eats grass or plants. e.g. zebra, giraffe, cow, rabbit etc
Plants make their own food during photosynthesis. In what group do plants belong?
The chemical and physical processes that break down rock at Earth's surface.
What does the arrow in a food chain show?
which animal is receiving the energy or where the energy is being transferred.
What travels through a food chain or web?
Deltas forming at the mouths of rivers is called?
Describe the difference between a food web and a food chain
Food web = shows an animal eating more than one other organism
Food chain = single line (ie animal eats one organism)
The grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in water, ice, or wind.
True or False: if one part in a food web dies off everything else will die off to.
Not necessarily. In a food WEB animals can find another source of food to survive
Which of these shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level?
An ecosystem with specific species adapted to the climate, vegetation, & elevation
The process that splits rock when water seeps into cracks, then freezes and expands.
What does a detrivore eat?
They eat dead or sick animals(decaying plant or animals) e.g. worms, slugs, maggots
A model that shows all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem is a...
A chemical change in which a substance combines with oxygen, as when iron forms rust.