Food Web
What is the name of the first consumer in a food chain?
Primary Consumer
What type of organism is found at the beginning of every food chain?
Producer
What are the 3 types of RELATIONSHIPS (not symbiotic relationships!)
Competition
Predation
Symbiosis
Another name for producers is
Autotrophs
Bottom
Diagram that shows all possible feeding relationships in an ecosystem
What type of consumer comes after a secondary consumer?
Tertiary consumer
Name the type of symbiosis:
One organism STEALS nutrients from another
parasitism
where do plants get their energy?
The sun
What is the name of the next consumer that comes after Tertiary?
Quaternary consumer
arrows on a food web or chain point in the direction of........
energy flow
What type of consumer comes after a primary consumer?
Secondary consumer
Name the type of symbiosis:
Both organisms benefit
Mutualism
What type of consumer Breaks down dead organisms and put the nutrients back into the soil?
Decomposer
Where would you expect to find herbivores on an energy pyramid?
(Draw or use words to describe)
The level above the bottom
What do we call the organism at the top that is not eaten by any other organisms?
Apex Predator
Name the process where producers produce their own food.
Photosynthesis
Name the type of symbiosis:
One organism benefits, while the other is unaffected
Commensalism
Where do consumers get their energy?
plants or other consumers
On an energy pyramid how much energy is transferred from one level to the next?
about 10%
Diagram that shows one path of energy flow
Food chain
Most of the energy lost between trophic levels is lost in the form of _____________________
Body heat
What are the 3 types of symbiosis and their symbols?
Parasitism +/-
Mutualism +/+
Commensalism +/0
1. An organism that eats both plants and animals
2. An organism that eats only producers (plants)
3. An organism that eats other animals (meat eaters)
1. Omnivore
2. Herbivore
3. Carnivore
An organisms position in the food chain
Trophic Level