Ecosystems (Food chains, webs, energy pyramids)

What are producers

• Organisms that create their own food

• Organisms that get their food by eating other organisms

• Organisms that get their energy by breaking down dead organisms.

What is the typical order of organisms in food chains webs?

• Carnivore --> Producer --> Herbivore --> Decomposer

• Producer --> Carnivore --> Decomposer --> Herbivore

• Producer --> Herbivore ---> Omnivore --> Carnivore

• Herbivore --> Omnivore --> Carnivore --> Producer

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What is a carnivore

• Eats only plants

• Eats only meat

• Eats both plants and meat

• Uses abiotic factors to make it's own food.

How do living things (excluding plants) get energy

• Living

• Eating

• Sleeping

• Moving

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What is a herbivore

• Eats only plants

• Eats only meat

• Eats both plants and meat

• Uses abiotic factors to make it's own food.

What is an omnivore

• Eats only plants

• Eats only meat

• Eats both plants and meat

• Uses abiotic factors to make it's own food.

What is a producer

• Eats only plants

• Eats only meat

• Eats both plants and meat

• Uses abiotic factors to make it's own food.

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What is a food web.

• All the possible food chains within an ecosystem

• A single pathway of energy transfer

• What a spider makes

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What is a decomposer

• An organism that eats plants

• An organism that eats animals

• An organism that makes it own food

• An organism that breaks down dead organisms into nutrients.

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What starts every food chain/web

• Producer

• Consumer

• Sun

• It is different for every food chain/web

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