Food Webs
A model that shows the transferring energy in a whole ecosystem.
What is a food web.
In the food chain Sun → Grass → Grasshopper → Bird which animal would be most directly affected if a forest fire burned all the grass away.
Grasshopper
Organisms that eat dead things.
What are decomposers?
What is the heterotroph that eats only plants?
Herbivore
The ultimate source of energy for all life on earth.
What is the sun?
What is the name of organisms that create food from sunlight.
What are producers?
Bacteria and fungi.
What are decomposers?
What is the heterotroph that only eats meat?
What is a carnivore?
What do the arrows show in food webs?
The movement and flow of energy between organisms.
What are the two labels of organisms that consume producers.
What are consumers/primary consumers or herbivores?
The only living thing that produces its' own food.
What are plants?
What is the heterotroph that eats both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
What is the fiercest predator in a food chain or food web called?
An apex predator
The name or label of organisms that eat primary consumers or herbivores.
What are secondary consumers or carnivores?
A meat eater.
What is a carnivore?
Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
What are predators?
Primary Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, and Tertiary Consumers.
Organisms that eat both producers and primary consumers.
What are omnivores?
What does a ecological pyramid show?
Biomass and energy
What is an organism that is gets consumed by another?
What is prey?