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Food Webs
Food webs vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Overlapping food chains | food web |
| Organisms that make their own food | producers |
| Organisms that eat producers only | primary consumers |
| Organisms that eat primary consumers | secondary consumers |
| Organisms that break down wastes | decomposers |
| An interaction when a predator hunts a prey | parasitism |
| An interaction when one benefits and the other is not effect | commensalism |
| An interaction when both organisms benefit | mutualism |
| The hunted | prey |
| The hunter | predator |
| Energy always enters an ecosystem from the _______. | Sun |
| When an organism consumes another organism it will obtain __________ of the energy. | 10% |
| An interaction between 2 organisms that benefits at least one. There are 3 types: parasitism, commensalism and mutualism. | symbiosis |