Food Web and Pyramids

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What do arrows in a food web represent?

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Energy

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What type of consumer is a fox in a food web?

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Tertiary Consumer

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Which organism occupies the highest trophic level in a food web?

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Eagle that eats snake

Front

What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.

Front

Why are there usually few organisms at the top of an energy pyramid?

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Energy is lost at each trophic level, supporting fewer organisms at the top.

Front

What is a producer in a food web?

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An organism that produces its own food, typically through photosynthesis.

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Define a primary consumer.

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An organism that eats producers; typically herbivores.

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What is a secondary consumer?

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An organism that eats primary consumers; can be carnivores or omnivores.

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Explain the concept of a food chain.

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A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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What is a trophic level?

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Each step in a food chain or food web, representing a different level of energy transfer.