Food Web Vocabulary

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What is the primary source of energy for an ecosystem?

Back

The Sun.

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What does a quaternary consumer eat?

Back

Eats tertiary consumer.

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What does a secondary consumer eat?

Back

Eats primary consumer.

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What is a herbivore?

Back

An animal that eats producers.

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What is a food web?

Back

Overlapped food chains: more realistic.

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What is a producer in an ecosystem?

Back

An organism that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis.

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What is a primary consumer?

Back

An organism that eats producers.

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What is a tertiary consumer?

Back

An organism that eats secondary consumers.

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What role do decomposers play in an ecosystem?

Back

They break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients back into the soil.

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What is a trophic level?

Back

A level in a food chain or food web, representing the flow of energy.