Food Webs

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What is a food web?

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A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem, showing how energy and nutrients flow through different species.

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What is a producer?

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A producer is an organism, like a plant, that can make its own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide through a process called photosynthesis.

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What is a consumer?

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A consumer is an organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other organisms (plants or animals) to obtain energy.

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What do plants need to make their own food?

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Plants need sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make their own food through photosynthesis.

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What is photosynthesis?

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Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose (food) and oxygen.

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What is a herbivore?

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A herbivore is an animal that primarily eats plants.

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What is a carnivore?

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A carnivore is an animal that primarily eats other animals.

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What is an omnivore?

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An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals.

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What role do decomposers play in a food web?

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Decomposers break down dead organisms and waste, returning nutrients to the soil and helping to recycle matter in the ecosystem.

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What is an ecosystem?

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An ecosystem is a community of living organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment.

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