Food Webs

Front

What is a food web?

Back

A food web is a system of interconnected food chains that shows how energy and nutrients flow through an ecosystem.

Front

What happens when one animal in a food web is altered?

Back

It affects other animals in the web.

Front

What is an herbivore?

Back

An herbivore is an animal that eats plants.

Front

Give an example of an herbivore.

Back

Deer.

Front

How do herbivores get their energy?

Back

Herbivores get their energy from eating plants.

Front

What is a carnivore?

Back

A carnivore is an animal that eats other animals.

Front

Give an example of a carnivore.

Back

A fox.

Front

How do carnivores get their energy?

Back

Carnivores get their energy from eating other animals.

Front

What is a producer in a food web?

Back

A producer is an organism, like a plant, that makes its own food through photosynthesis.

Front

What role do decomposers play in a food web?

Back

Decomposers break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem.