Name ______________________
Date_____ / _____ / _________
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
Food Webs
Use the food web to the right
to answer the questions.
Producers
First-Order
Consumers
Second-Order
Consumers
Third-Order
Consumers
1. The second-order
consumer with no predators is
the ____________________.
2. The food chain that
includes insect-eating birds is
____________________.
3. The animal that consumes
the largest number of firstorder and second-order
consumer species is the
__________________.
4. All the animals that are
herbivores are _______________
consumers.
5. If there were no mountain lions in this food web, which first order consumers would likely
decrease in population size? _____________
Ecological Terms
Community
Decomposers
Ecosystem
Herbivore
Niche
Omnivore
Population
Provide the missing terms in the blanks below using the word list above
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Habitat
scavenger
A group of independent organisms in a particular environment for a (an) __________.
Organisms that break down complex compounds and dead tissue are __________.
All the living and nonliving things in a selected area from a (an) __________.
The particular environment to which a particular species is adopted is its __________.
The special role and place of an organism within its habitat is its __________.
An animal that eats both plants and animals is a (an) __________.
Members of a single species that occupy a common area from a (an) __________.
Animals that feed only on dead organisms are __________.
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