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What do arrows in a food web represent?

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Energy

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What is a producer?

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An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food.

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Who is the producer in this example: lettuce, greenfly, ladybird, thrush?

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Lettuce

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What is a food web?

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A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem.

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What is a carnivore?

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An animal that gets energy by eating other animals.

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What is a herbivore?

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An animal that gets energy by eating only plants.

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What is an omnivore?

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An animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals.

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What role do decomposers play in a food web?

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They break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem.

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What is the primary source of energy for most food chains?

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The Sun.

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Define a food chain.

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A linear sequence of organisms where each is eaten by the next in the chain.