FOOD WEBS
When the snake it the frog, where does the energy of the frog will go.
Snake
An animal that is hunted for another animal to eat.
A prey
A living thing that needs the sun, water, and nutrients so they do not depend on other living things.
A producer
The only level that makes their own food.
The producer
These live in the dirt and help decompose dead material.
What is worms?
The arrow represents this.
The flow of energy passing from one level to the next.
An animal that hunts prey to eat.
Predator
A living thing that depends on other living things to survive.
Consumers
Producers provide food for this trophic level.
Primary consumers.
These animals are not to be confused with decomposers.
Scavenger
The last level of the food web.
Decomposers
An animal that consumes plants for food.
A herbivore
An animal that eats plants or animals for survival.
A secondary consumer
Water, carbon dioxide, and sun provide food for this trophic level.
Producers
A living fungus that grows from the ground that can be eaten.
Mushrooms
The start of a food web.
The sun.
An animal that mostly eats meat.
A carnivore
These are unstable in an ecosystem.
These are interconnected and stable in an ecosystem.
Food Chains then Food Webs.
Relies on primary consumers and/or producers for food.
Secondary consumers
A Prokaryote that helps decompose material.
Bacteria
The flow of energy in a food web from start to finish.
From the sun to producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer to tertiary consumer to quarternary consumer to decomposer.
An animal that consumes both meat and plants.
An omnivores
These trophic levels are carnivores.
Tertiary and quarternary consumers
First consumer
A decomposer does this.
Break down dead plants and animals to return nutrients to the soil.