Producers
Organisms that make their own food using sunlight are called this.
What are producers?
Animals that eat plants are called this.
What are herbivores?
Energy moves in this direction in a food web.
What is one direction?
An animal that hunts other animals is called this.
What is a predator?
A community of living and nonliving things interacting together is called this.
What is an ecosystem?
This process allows plants to make food from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
Animals that eat other animals are called this.
What are carnivores?
Only about this percent of energy passes to the next level.
What is 10%?
An animal that is hunted is called this.
What is prey?
Organisms that break down dead matter are called this.
What are decomposers
The main source of energy for almost all food webs on Earth.
What is the Sun?
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
Many connected food chains form this.
What is a food web?
If wolf populations decrease, deer populations might do this.
What is increase?
Fungi and bacteria are examples of this role in a food web.
What are decomposers?
Grass, trees, and algae are examples of this type of organism in a food web.
What are producers?
A rabbit that eats grass is this type of consumer.
What is a primary consumer?
The series of steps showing who eats whom is called this.
What is a food chain?
This type of predator is at the very top of the food web with no natural predators.
What is an apex predator?
Removing one species from a food web can cause this type of effect.
What is a chain reaction?
These tiny ocean producers float near the surface and feed many marine animals.
What is phytoplankton?
A snake that eats a mouse that ate grass is this type of consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
Many connected food chains form this.
What is a food web?
In a forest, hawks, foxes, and snakes may compete for this same food source.
What are small rodents?
A species that has a very large impact on its ecosystem is called this.
What is a keystone species?