Food Webs
In which direction does the arrow travel in a food web?
From prey to predator
OR
From predator to prey
Prey to predator
The LIVING factors in an environment are called ______ factors
What is biotic?
Organisms that eat on the flesh of dead animals, but DONT recycle the nutrients back into the soil
Example: vultures
What are Scavengers?
A model that shows how energy flows between living things in multiple and complex connections.
What is a food web?
Primary consumers are eaten by this
What are secondary consumers?
NON-Living factors in an environment such as rocks, temperature, rain are called _______ factors
What is abiotic?
Bacteria and fungi are considered these in a food web
What are decomposers?
A model of a singular line showing the flow of energy through different organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
What percentage of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next? A primary consumer only gets ___% of the energy from plants
What is 10%?
The source of all life's energy on earth.
What is the sun?
The part of the food chain occupied by the top predators that no one eats.
What is the apex.
Organisms that eat primary consumers or herbivores.
What are secondary consumers, omnivores or carnivores?
Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
Hint: carnivore is technically correct, but im looking for another word
What are predators?
What eats secondary consumers?
What are tertiary consumers?
What type of consumer can NEVER be a primary consumer?
What is an carnivore?
The power needed to stay alive and do anything, such as work.
What is energy?
What is it called when toxins build up in a food chain until the top predator has the highest concentration of toxin?
What are biomagnification?