Food Chains, Webs, and Pyramids

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What is an organism that can produce its own food through photosynthesis?

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Autotroph

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What are organisms that carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms?

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Decomposer

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What is an organism that gets energy from eating other things?

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Consumer

Front

If the grasshopper were to be removed completely from the food web, which organism would be most affected?

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The shrew

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What is an organism that eats only meat?

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Carnivore

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What is the term for organisms that eat only plants?

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Herbivore

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What do we call a consumer that eats both plants and animals?

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Omnivore

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What is the role of producers in a food chain?

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Producers create energy through photosynthesis and are the base of the food chain.

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What is a food web?

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A food web is a complex network of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.

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What is a food chain?

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