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An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a:

• Predator
• Autotroph
• Producer
• Decomposer

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

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What is the role of a decomposer in a food web?

• It eats animals
• It produces its own food and provides other organisms with food
• It eats plants
• It breaks down dead plants and animals into minerals

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Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them. 
• They may eat more than one other organism. 
• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources. 
• They have no resources available to them.

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Squirrel 

• Producer
• Consumer 
• Decomposer 

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Movement of energy within an ecosystem based on what organisms eat or the food they make.

• food chain

• food web

• producer

• prey

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Bacteria is known as ______________ in an ecosystem when feeding on dead organisms.

• decomposers
• herbivores
• pathogens
• infections

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Which of the following is an example of a decomposer?

• Bacteria

• Fungus

• Mushroom

• All of the above

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This is an example of a

• food chain

• food chart

• flow food

• food web

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