Food Webs

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What is a food web?

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A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem, showing how energy and nutrients flow through different species.

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What is a producer in a food web?

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A producer is an organism that can make its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, such as plants and algae.

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What is a consumer in a food web?

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A consumer is an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other organisms to obtain energy.

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What is a primary consumer?

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A primary consumer is an herbivore that eats producers (plants) in a food web.

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What is a secondary consumer?

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A secondary consumer is a carnivore that eats primary consumers in a food web.

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What is a tertiary consumer?

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A tertiary consumer is a predator that eats secondary consumers in a food web.

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What role do decomposers play in a food web?

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Decomposers break down dead organic matter, returning nutrients to the soil and making them available for producers.

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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 where each is eaten by the next, while a food web is a more complex network of interconnected food chains.

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What is photosynthesis?

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Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.

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What is a predator?

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A predator is an organism that hunts and eats other organisms (prey) for food.