Ecosystems: Food Chains, Webs, & Energy Pyramids

Organisms that make their own food

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

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Organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the environment

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumers that eat only plants

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

• Scavengers

Consumers that eat only animals

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

• Scavengers

In the food web above, what eats the rabbit?

• Fox

• Hawk

• Vole

• Grass

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As you work your way up the energy pyramid, what happens to the energy?

• It increases

• It decreases

• It stays the same

• Nothing

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A food _______ consists of many overlapping food ________.

• web, chains

• chain, webs

• pyramid, webs

• web, pyramids

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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A food _______ is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

• chain

• web

• pyramid

• plate

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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In the food web above, what organism is missing from this food chain:

Grass --> Slug --> ________ --> Hawk

• Vole

• Frog

• Insect

• Thrush

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3