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What best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem

• Food flowing through an ecosystem

• Consumers eating animals

• who eats who

What are plants called in a food chain?

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

• Consumers

• Producers

What are animals called in a food chain?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Plants

What organisms break down and absorb energy from dead organisms?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Organisms

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Wolf

• Grass

• Deer

• Sun

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What is the role of a producer

• Gain energy from eating other organisms

• Keep other species from overpopulating

• Use sunlight to make food

• Breaking down dead organisms

What is the role of consumers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food

• Break down dead organisms

• Eat other species to keep them from overpopulating

• Add nutrients to the soil

What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food

• Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil

• Eat to get energy from other organisms

• Make food for the whole food chain

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Which of these organisms gets energy from the snake?

• Plant

• Hawk

• Rabbitt

• Mouse

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What type of consumer eats plants only

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Scavenger