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What is a primary producer?
Organisms that produce their own food
What is a herbivore?
Animals that eat plants/primary producers
What is an omnivore?
Animal that eats both plants and animals
What is a carnivore?
Animal that mainly eats meat
What is a primary consumer?
Organism that primarily eats primary producers
Provide three examples of primary producers
Plants, trees, phytoplankton, algae
Where do all primary producers get their energy from?
The sun
What are two ways human caused ways food webs can be disrupted?
Deforestation, overfishing, pollution, climate change
What is a secondary consumer?
Organisms that primarily eats primary consumers
Provide three examples of primary consumers
Insects, rabbits, cows, deer
Provide an example of a food chain
Producer - primary consumer - secondary consumer - tertiary consumer
Flower - caterpillar - frog - snake
What are two natural ways food webs can be disrupted
Natural disasters, disease, invasive species
What is a tertiary consumer
A top predator, eats secondary consumers, usually does not eat plants
Provide three examples of secondary consumers
Snakes, foxes, hawks, spiders
Ocean, rainforest, desert, grasslands(prairies)
Provide one example of each: Herbivore, Omnivore, and Carnivore
Rabbit
Humans
Sharks
What are decomposers?
Breaks down dead organisms and return nutrients to the ecosystem
Provide three examples of tertiary consumers
Wolves, eagles, sharks, humans
How are food chains different from food webs?
A food web is all the food chains that make up an ecosystem put together
In a food web, what happens if a predator species is removed from the ecosystem? What might happen to the species it preys on?
The prey species may become overpopulated, and the balance of the ecosystem can be disrupted.