Vocabulary, Part I
An animal that eats other living things is a _____.
consumer
Herbivores and omnivores both eat _____.
producers
Which of these must a pond food chain have?
A.) algae
B.) sunlight
C.) tiny fish
D.) whales
B.) sunlight
Antelopes are herbivores. What other term describes them?
prey
consumers
Nutrients would be lost without _____.
decomposers
A food web shows relationships among living things more accurately than a _____.
food chain
Which term includes herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
A.) consumers
B.) predators
C.) prey
D.) producers
A.) consumers
What is the first organism on a food chain?
producer
The animals at the top of a food chain are always _____.
predators
The loss of energy along a food chain is shown in an _____.
energy pyramid
How much energy is used at each level of the energy pyramid and not passed on?
A.) 10%
B.) 20%
C.) 80%
D.) 90%
D.) 90%
Which of these organisms could survive without being part of a food chain and why?
Strawberry plant, chicken, dog
The kind of food that an animal eats is part of its _____.
niche
An animal that eats a producer is this type of consumer.
1st Level Consumer
Which of the following do herbivores eat?
A.) consumers
B.) omnivores
C.) predators
D.) producers
D.) producers
Compare a carnivore and a predator. What is one way they are similar?
They both eat other animals.
Animals that eat both producers and consumers are _____.
omvinores
An animal like a wolf might be this type of consumer, meaning it eats animals high up in the food chain.
Top Level Consumer
What are robins, which eat worms and insects?
A.) carnivores
B.) herbivores
C.) omnivores
D.) prey
Compare a carnivore and a predator. What is one way they are different?
A carnivore only eats meat, while a predator may eat meat as well as plants, making it an omnivore.