Food Chains and Food Webs

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Why did the chipmunk population increase the year after oak trees produced more acorns?

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Food sources increased

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Plankton are tiny organisms that live in the ocean. Some types of plankton use energy from sunlight to make their own food. Which statement BEST explains the role of plankton in an ocean ecosystem?

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Plankton produce energy for consumers in the ocean.

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How would wood ducks be affected if trees near lakes were removed?

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Wood ducks would increase their competition for nests.

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Which organisms are competing with each other for the same food source? Options: Hawk and Snake, Cricket and Frog, Snake and Cricket, Shrew and Grasshopper

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Hawk and Snake

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Which organisms in this food web compete for food?

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owl and hawk

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How will it MOST likely affect the ecosystem if the population of grass increases?

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The population of deer will decrease.

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Which population would MOST likely increase if the crayfish population decreased? Options: hawk, mink, fish, snail

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snail

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What would MOST likely happen first if the producer population in a pond food chain were to decrease? Options: The fish population would increase, The grass population would increase, The number of hawks would decrease, The number of grasshoppers would decrease.

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The number of grasshoppers would decrease.

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If there were a sudden decrease in the amount of grass, which would be MOST affected? Options: the Sun, the trees, the rabbits, the wolves

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the rabbits

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What is MOST likely to happen to coyotes if a new predator begins eating their main food source, mice?

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There will be fewer coyotes.

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