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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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Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and scavengers are all examples of __________.

• producers
• consumers
• decomposers
• abiotic factors

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How do animals help keep plants alive in an ecosystem?

• Eats them
• Gives off Oxygen
• Nothing
• Gives off Carbon Dioxide

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What breaks down dead organisms? 

• predators
• decomposers
• consumers
• scavengers

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What is the best choice for studying decomposers at work?

• a rotting log on the forest floor

• a live, healthy tree

• a robin that builds a nest in a tree

• cut wood at a lumber yard

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In a food chain, the sun provides energy for an apple tree to grow. A deer eats an apple from the tree. Which is a consumer?

• the tree

• the apple

• the sun

• the deer

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What's the role of consumers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food 
• Eat other species and keep them from overpopulating
• Break down dead stuff
• Add nutrients to the soil

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Which statement correctly describes the transfer of energy in a food chain in this wetland?

• Energy is transferred from hawks to shrews to grasshoppers to marsh grasses.

• Energy is transferred from marsh grasses to crickets to hawks to frogs.

• Energy is transferred from grasshoppers to crickets to frogs to hawks.

• Energy is transferred from cattails to crickets to shrews to hawks.

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What happens if a portion of the food chain is broken?

(¿Qué pasaría si una porción de la cadena alimenticia se interrumpe?)

• Only the consumers would be affected.

  (Sólo los consumidores se verían afectados)

• The decomposers and producers would be affected. (Los descomponedores y los productores se verían afectados.)

• All the organisms would be affected

  (Todos los organismos se verían afectados.)

• Nobody would be affected.

  (Nadie se vería afectado.)

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Which type of organism breaks down waste and dead organisms, then returns the nutrients to the soil?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

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