Food Chains, Webs, and Pyramids

Front

What level of the food pyramid has the greatest amount of energy?

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Producers

Front

What shows all possible flows of energy in an ecosystem?

Back

Food web

Front

What are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms called?

Back

Decomposers

Front

In a food chain, which organism is a tertiary consumer?

Back

Hawk

Front

What do you call an organism that eats only plants?

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Herbivore

Front

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

Back

The Sun

Front

What is a food chain?

Back

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

Front

What is a food web?

Back

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

Front

What role do producers play in a food chain?

Back

They convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis.

Front

What is a consumer?

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An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.