A | B |
Terrestrial food web | Food web based on land. Affected by human activities. |
Oceanic food web | Food web based in the ocean. Affected by human activities. |
Tertiary consumer | "Top predator." Organisms that eat other carnivores/secondary consumers. |
Secondary consumer | Organisms that eat primary consumers (herbivores). Also called a carnivore. |
Primary consumer | Organisms that eat producers. It is an herbivore. |
Producer | 1st organism in a food chain. Makes own food--gets energy from the sun (photosynthesis) or inorganic compounds (chemosynthesis). |
Food chain | Series of organisms that eat other organisms. Producer-->herbivore-->carnivore. Arrows represent where energy is going. |
Food web | Multiple food chains |