| A | B |
|---|
| tropic levels | feeding levels starting with producers |
| food chain | feeding levels that go in straight line |
| food web | interconnecting food chains |
| producer | plants, algae, - first tropic level |
| primary consumers | plant eaters 2nd tropic level |
| secondary consumer | eats primary consumers, 3 tropic level |
| Tertiary consumer | eats both primay and secondary consumers - 4 tropic level |
| Quaternary consumer | eats, primary, secondary and tertiary consumers - 5 tropic level |
| carnivore | meat eaters |
| herbivore | plant algae eaters |
| decomposers | eat dead things - breaks things down, return organisms to basic nutrients |
| detritus | edead or waste products |
| autotrophs | can make their own food, plants and algae |
| heterotrophs | can't make their own food, must hunt or gather it |
| algae | autotrophs/ producer |
| grass | producer/autotroph |
| fox | secondary consumer - carnovore- heterotroph |
| ominvore | eats both meat and plants |
