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Food Web Terms
Producers 1st tropic level
• can make their own food - turn energy from the sun into sugar through photosynthesis
Primary Consumers 2nd Tropic level
• Eat only producers - gets energy from producers cows horses deer rabbits
Secondary Consumers 3rd tropic Level• Eat primary consumers - usually carnivores –
fox coyote snake
Tertiary Consumers 4th tropic level
• Eat both primary and secondary consumers – carnivores Eagles wolves
Quandary Consumers 5th Tropic Level
• Eat primary, secondary and tertiary consumers Top of the food chain –
• lions, great white sharks
herbivores
• Eat only plants
Carnivores
• Eat only meat
Omnivores
• Eat both plants and meat
autotroph
• Organisms that can make their own food – same as producers
heterotroph
• General name for all organism that cannot make their own food – all consumers
Decomposers
• Organisms that break down dead organisms for energy