Food Chains and Food Webs

Why are food webs important in maintaining biodiversity?

• They help organisms find food

• They prevent food chains from collapsing

• They show the relationships between organisms

• They keep the trophic levels balanced

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What is the meaning of the word "trophic"?

• Relating to food or nutrition

• A group of interconnected food chains

• An organism that eats plants

• The highest point in the food chain

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What are primary consumers?

• Organisms that eat plants

• Organisms at the top of the food chain

• Organisms that eat herbivores

• Organisms that produce energy through photosynthesis

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What are apex predators?

• Organisms that eat plants

• Organisms that eat herbivores

• Organisms at the top of the food chain

• Organisms that produce energy through photosynthesis

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What is the path that energy and nutrients follow in an ecosystem called?

• Food chains

• Energy flow

• Nutrient cycle

• Ecosystem pathway

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How does energy flow in a food chain?

• In multiple directions

• Back and forth

• Only in one direction

• It doesn't flow in a food chain

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What is a food web?

• describes the relationship between different organisms with regards to who eats what (or who)

• A single chain of organisms that eat each other

• A group of organisms that eat plants

• A term used to describe the place an organism occupies in the food chain

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What is the top of the food chain?

• Plants

• Animals

• Humans

• Sunlight

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How do animals get energy? (Select 2 TWO answers)

• By making their own food

• By eating plants

• By eating other animals

• By photosynthesis

What does it mean to be a consumer?

• To make your own food

• To eat plants and animals

• To eat only plants

• To eat to get energy to live

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