Flow of Energy (Food Chains, Webs, Pyramids)

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What is an organism that gets its energy and nutrition from eating both meat and plants?

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Omnivore

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Which organism is correctly paired with its description: Frog, Rabbit, Grasshopper, or Owl?

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Grasshopper - heterotroph

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What do we call organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain energy by eating others?

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Heterotrophs

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If producers in an ecosystem have 6,500 kcal of energy, how much energy would you expect the primary consumers to have?

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650 kcal

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How does corn, as a producer, get its food?

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It makes its own food using energy from the sun.

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What is the term for organisms that can make their own food using sunlight?

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Autotrophs

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What is a food chain?

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

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What is a food web?

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

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What is a trophic pyramid?

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A graphical representation showing the flow of energy at different trophic levels in an ecosystem.

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What role do producers play in an ecosystem?

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They convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis.