Ecology

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What is a primary consumer?

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A primary consumer is an organism that eats producers (plants) in a food web. Examples include herbivores like snails and grasshoppers.

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What is a secondary consumer?

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A secondary consumer is an organism that eats primary consumers. Examples include animals that eat herbivores, like shrews.

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What is a tertiary consumer?

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A tertiary consumer is an organism that eats secondary consumers. Examples include top predators like owls.

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What is a producer?

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A producer is an organism that can make its own food through photosynthesis, such as plants and algae.

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What is a food web?

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A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem, showing how energy and nutrients flow.

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What is a population in ecology?

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A population is a group of individuals of the same species living in a defined area.

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What is an ecosystem?

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An ecosystem is a community of living organisms interacting with their physical environment.

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What is biodiversity?

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Biodiversity refers to the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem, including the number of species and genetic diversity.

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What happens to a food web if a primary consumer is removed?

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If a primary consumer is removed, it can lead to an increase in the producer population and a decrease in the secondary consumers that rely on it for food.

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What is primary succession?

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Primary succession is the process of ecological change that occurs in an area where no soil exists, such as after a volcanic eruption.