Food Webs/Energy Pyramids

The path of food energy in an ecosystem from plants to animals.

• omnivore

• food chain

• producer

• consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that eats only other animals

• producer

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

An animal that eats both plants and animals

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

• producer

An animal that eats only plants

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

• fox

Where do green plants get most of the energy they need to make their own food?

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

• sunlight

• water

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the term for food chains that overlap

• consumer

• food web

• extinction

• producers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the name for consumers that are eaten by other consumers?

• prey

• fossils

• predators

• carnivores

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What type of organism is at the beginning of every food chain?

• predator

• carnivore

• producer

• herbivore

What does a food chain show?

• how producers use sunlight to make food energy

• how living things depend on each other for food

• where resources are found in a habitat

• why plant and animal matter break down

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What role do plants play in a habitat?

• They produce food energy from sunlight.

• They break down dead matter.

• They are prey for predators.

• They recycle nutrients from dead matter.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3