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What is the main role of decomposers in a food chain?

• Use energy from the sun.

• Use photosynthesis to make food.

• Break down dead organisms and add nutrients back to the soil.

• Eat other organisms for energy.

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Which group uses energy from the sun to participate in photosynthesis?

• Primary Consumers

• Producers

• Decomposers

• Secondary Consumers

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Primary consumers eat only plants and are known as

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What do food webs show?

• The direction energy is passed from one organism to another.

• The animals' favorite foods.

• All the plants in an area.

• All the animals in an area.

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Which list only contains animals that only receive energy transferred directly from consumers

• red tailed hawks, snow shoe hares, caterpillars

• shrews and cateroillars

• snow shoe hares and shrews

• shrews and red foxes

What organism can replace the X?

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

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How many organisms obtain food directly from producers.

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 4

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Circle the producer and draw a line to its consumer

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All of the living and non-living things and all of their interactions in an area.

• ecosystem

• food web

• population

• organism

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Which change would most likely occur if all the producers of an ecosystem were removed?

• The herbivores would become the new producers.

• All the animals would either die or move away.

• The number of herbivores would increase.

• All of the animal populations would increase.

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