Energy Flow in Living Systems

What is a consumer?

• The living and nonliving components of an area.

• An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste.

• An organism that eats other organisms for food.

• An organism that makes its own food.

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What is a producer?

• A representation of several overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

• The place where an organism lives.

• To rely on someone or something else.

• An organism that makes its own food.

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What is a food web?

• A representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem.

• A representation of several overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

• A picture, an idea, or an object that represents an object, a system, or a process.

• An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste.

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What is a model?

• An organism that eats other organisms for food.

• A picture, an idea, or an object that represents an object, a system, or a process.

• An organism that makes its own food.

• To rely on someone or something else.

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What is an ecosystem?

• The living and nonliving components of an area.

• The place where an organism lives.

• An organism that eats other organisms for food.

• To rely on someone or something else.

What is a habitat?

• The living and nonliving components of an area.

• The place where an organism lives.

• A representation of several overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

• A picture, an idea, or an object that represents an object, a system, or a process.

What is a decomposer?

• An organism that eats other organisms for food.

• An organism that makes its own foo.

• To rely on someone or something else.

• An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste.

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What does the word dependent mean?

• A picture, an idea, or an object that represents an object, a system, or a process.

• The living and nonliving components of an area.

• The place where an organism lives.

• To rely on someone or something else.

What is a food chain?

• A representation of several overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

• A representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem.

• An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste.

• To rely on someone or something else.

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