Food Webs

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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Given that the bear pictured eat many types of food including meats and plants, he is an example of an ______________________.

• Autotroph
• Omnivore
• Herbivore
• Producer

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

• Producer
• Heterotroph
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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A food web is lots of food chains that overlap.

• True

• False

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A ___________ shows how energy is passed from one living thing to another...

• ecosystem

• habitat

• food chain

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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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Which type of consumer consumes only animals?

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

What is the main role of the alga in this food chain?

• to recycle nutrients on the ocean floor

• to convert sunlight into usable energy

• to provide animals with shelter

• to break down the remains of dead organisms

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An animal that gets energy from consuming both producers and animals is a

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

• autotroph

Energy from producers is first transferred to...

• consumers that eat plants

• the sun

• decomposers

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