5.9B Food Webs

What is the original source of Energy in a food web?

• Decomposers (Bacteria and Fungi)

• Producers (Plants)

• Consumers (Animals)

• Sun

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In the food web diagram, what do the arrows represent?

• Life Cycle

• Metamorphosis

• How food is produced by organisms

• The flow of energy through an ecosystem

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Mold, fungi, and some types of bacteria are classified as decomposers. What is the role of a decomposer in a food web?

• break down waste and dead organisms

• use sunlight and water to produce their own food

• release oxygen into the atmosphere for respiration

• to provide the energy animals need for food

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An animal that eats other animals is a....

• carnivore
• omnivore
• herbivore
• decomposer

Bears eat fish, insects, plants, seeds, nuts and young elk. They are called __________.

• Franivore
• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Omnivore

An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:

• Producer
• Heterotroph
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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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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A __________ includes all living and non-living things in an environment. 

• population
• niche
• abitotic
• ecosystem

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Consumers that feed on plants are also known as

• herbs

• omnivores

• herbivores

• carnivores

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What are animals called in a food chain?

• Plants

• Consumers

• Producers

• Decomposers