Ecology and Food Webs

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What is a food chain?

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The flow of energy from one thing to another.

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What is the bottom layer of an energy pyramid?

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Producer.

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What is a producer?

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An organism that creates their own food.

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What do secondary consumers eat?

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They eat herbivores.

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that eats other organisms for energy.

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What is a primary consumer?

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An organism that eats producers (plants).

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What is a tertiary consumer?

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An organism that eats secondary consumers.

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What role do decomposers play in an ecosystem?

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

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What is an ecosystem?

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A community of living organisms interacting with their environment.

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What is biodiversity?

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The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.