CK12 Life Science

4. What is the producer in the food chain?


5. What is the herbivore in the food chain?


6. What is the carnivore in the food chain?


7. In a food chain, does the prey or predator have a greater biomass?


8. In an ecological pyramid, which level would have the greatest biomass?


9. What is the term for the visual representation of complex feeding interactions in a
   community?


10. In a forest community, caterpillars eat leaves, and birds eat caterpillars. Draw the food
    chain.


11. What’s the term for a consumer that eats both plants and animals?

Further Reading / Supplemental Links

• http://www.eelsinc.org/id43.html


• http://science-class.net/Ecology/energy_transfer.htm


• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_pyramid


• http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/calcpy.
  html


• http://science-class.net/Ecology/energy_transfer.htm


• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_chain

Vocabulary

biomass The total dry weight of all the individuals of one type of organism.

carnivore An organism that eats other animals.

consumer An organism that must eat other organisms to obtain energy and nutrients.

decomposer An organism that breaks down animal remains or wastes to gain energy and
nutrients.

ecological pyramid A visual representation of the energy content or biomass of various
levels in a food chain.

food chain A visual representation of the flow of energy from producers to consumers in
a community.

food web A visual representation of the complex eating relationships in a community; a
cross-linking of food chains.