Food Chains, Food Webs, and More

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What is a group of food chains within an ecosystem?

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Food Web

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What do we call animals that are at the very top of the food chain?

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Apex Predator

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What is the order in which organisms depend on each other for food?

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Food Chain

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What do we call an animal that gets its nutrition by eating primary consumers and secondary consumers?

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Tertiary Consumers

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What are organisms that eat ONLY primary producers—plants or algae—and nothing else?

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Primary Consumers

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What is the role of primary consumers in a food chain?

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They eat primary producers like plants.

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What is a secondary consumer?

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An animal that eats primary consumers.

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What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

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A food chain is a linear sequence of organisms, while a food web is a complex network of interconnected food chains.

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What is an example of an apex predator?

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A lion or a great white shark.

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What do we call the plants and algae that produce energy through photosynthesis?

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Primary Producers