Changes in an Ecosystem

Energy that moves through a food chain starts with--

• Food Chain

• Consumer

• Energy

• The Sun

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The food chain is--

• The movement of water from the surface to the atmosphere.

• The path of food energy from one organism to another.

• The ranking of organisms by size in an ecosystem.

• A list of food that consumers will eat in an ecosystem.

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Plants, insects, frogs, and snakes live in an ecosystem. What would happen if the snakes were removed from the ecosystem?

• Insect population would increase.

• Plant population would decrease.

• Frog population would increase.

• Frog population would decrease.

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The path of food energy from one organism to another.

• Food Chain

• Consumer

• Producer

• The sun

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What is a producer?

• The path of food energy from one organism to another.

• Need to do work or cause a change.

• An organism that makes its own food for energy.

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What type of organisms make their own food for energy?

• Producers

• Consumers

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What is a consumer?

• An organism that makes its own food for energy.

• An organism that gets energy from eating another organism.

• Energy that moves through a food chain starts with--

What does the arrow represent in a food chain?

• How far organisms live from each other.

• The transfer of energy from one organism to another.

• The size of the organisms from smallest to largest.

• The amount of energy the organism receives from the sun.

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What would happen to a coyote (carnivores) population if wildfires killed the prairie grass, which is eaten by the deer (herbivores)?

• Without the grass the deer would die.

• Without the grass the deer and coyotes would die.

• Without the grass the coyotes would die.

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How might a chipmunk be affected if the decomposers in the ecosystem decrease a lot because of a forest fire?

• The chipmunks might die out

• The chipmunks will not be affected

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