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What is the primary source of energy for all ecosystems?

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The sun.

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What is a system of food chains that shows the transfer of energy called?

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Food web.

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What do we call a consumer that eats plants?

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Herbivore.

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What is the term for organisms that produce their own food?

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Producers.

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What is a consumer that eats other consumers called?

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Carnivore.

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What is the role of decomposers in an ecosystem?

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They break down dead material and recycle nutrients.

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What is a food chain?

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

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What is the difference between a predator and prey?

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A predator is an animal that hunts and eats other animals (prey).

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Give an example of a herbivore.

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A rabbit.

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What is an omnivore?

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An organism that eats both plants and animals.