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What is the role of a producer in an ecosystem?

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Producers use sunlight to make food through photosynthesis.

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What do we call an organism that eats both plants and animals?

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An omnivore.

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Complete the food chain: Grass --> Grasshopper --> ___ --> Hawk

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Frog, snake, or another predator.

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What type of organism only eats plants?

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Herbivore.

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What is a food web?

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A food web is a complex network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem.

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What is a food chain?

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A food chain is a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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What is a carnivore?

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A carnivore is an organism that primarily eats other animals.

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What is a decomposer?

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A decomposer is an organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms, returning nutrients to the soil.

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What is photosynthesis?

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Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.

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What is an example of a primary consumer?

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A rabbit, which eats plants.