1. Food Web Terms

2. Producers 1st tropic level
can make their own food - turn energy from the sun into sugar through photosynthesis

3. Primary Consumers 2nd Tropic level
Eat only producers - gets energy from producers cows horses deer rabbits

4. Secondary Consumers 3rd tropic Level
Eat primary consumers - usually carnivores – fox coyote snake

5. Tertiary Consumers 4th tropic level
Eat both primary and secondary consumers – carnivores Eagles wolves

6. Quandary Consumers 5th Tropic Level
Eat primary, secondary and tertiary consumers Top of the food chain –
lions, great white sharks

7. herbivores
Eat only plants

8. Carnivores
Eat only meat

9. Omnivores
Eat both plants and meat

10. autotroph
Organisms that can make their own food – same as producers

11. heterotroph
General name for all organism that cannot make their own food – all consumers

12. Decomposers
Organisms that break down dead organisms for energy