Food Web

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What is the primary source of energy for all ecosystems?

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The sun.

Front

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

Back

Food web.

Front

What do we call a consumer that eats plants?

Back

Herbivore.

Front

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

Back

Producers.

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What is a consumer that eats other consumers called?

Back

Carnivore.

Front

What is the role of decomposers in an ecosystem?

Back

They break down dead material and recycle nutrients.

Front

What is a food chain?

Back

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

Front

What is the difference between a predator and prey?

Back

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

Front

Give an example of a herbivore.

Back

A rabbit.

Front

What is an omnivore?

Back

An organism that eats both plants and animals.