Food Chains/Webs

Organism that eats other things for food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• prey

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Organism that makes its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• predator

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Consumer that eats only plants

• omnivore

• insectivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

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Consumer that eats only other animals

• omnivore

• frugivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

What does a Primary Consumer eat?

• Tertiary Consumers
• Secondary Consumers
• Producers

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An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts is...

• scavenger
• consumer
• decomposer
• carnivore

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a ecosystem.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

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Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of: 

• scavengers
• predators
• prey
• decomposers

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

• The squirrel
• The shrew
• The deer
• The rabbit

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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