Ecological Relationships

What do the arrows in a food web represent?

• The direction of energy flow.

• What each animal eats.

• The amount of energy flow between animals.

• The time it takes for the energy to reach the next organism.

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An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.

• Predator

• Prey

• Producer

• Consumer

Omnivore

• A consumer that eats only animals.

• A consumer that makes their own energy.

• A consumer that eats both plants and animals.

• A consumer that eats only plants.

A _______ is a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains.

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A _____ is an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

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A heterotroph is

• An organism that can make its own food.

• An organism that cannot make its own food

• An organism that only eats meat.

• Creates energy from the sun.

A ______ is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.

This is dead organic matter.

• Plants

• Detritus

• Animals

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An animal that hunts other animals for food.

• Carnivore

• Prey

• Predator

• Omnivore

An organism that eats PRIMARY Consumers.

• Secondary Consumers

• Producers

• Tertiary Consumers

• Apex Predators

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