Food Chains and Food Webs

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What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

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Decomposers

Front

What shows how each living thing gets food and how nutrients and energy are passed from organism to organism?

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Food chain

Front

What happens to the mouse population when a cat population joins their community?

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Mouse population goes down as cat population goes up.

Front

What is the effect of removing prey from a food chain?

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All predators above them will die or suffer.

Front

What role do bacteria, fungi, and worms typically serve in an ecosystem?

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Decomposers

Front

What are producers in a food chain?

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Organisms that make their own food, like plants.

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What are consumers in a food chain?

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Organisms that eat other organisms for energy.

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What is a food web?

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A complex network of interconnected food chains.

Front

What is the primary source of energy for most food chains?

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The Sun.

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What is a herbivore?

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An animal that only eats plants.