Food Webs

Who is the producer?

• grass

• grasshopper

• mouse

• owl

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A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• environment

• ecosystem

• 
  food web

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Arrows in a food web represent...

• oxygen

• matter

• energy

• sunlight

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Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming FROM them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them.

• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources.

• They may eat more than one other organism.

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What is this?

a

Trophic pyramid

food network

Food Chain

Food Web

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According to the food web, a shrew is eaten by what?

• grasshopper

• cricket

• frog

• snake

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Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them. 

• They may eat more than one other organism. 

• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources. 

• They have no resources available to them.

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The diagram shows a prairie food web. In the food web shown, all of the following are consumers EXCEPT – (a)  

• Prairie Grass

• Mountain Lion

• Squirrel

• Robin

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The table shows the foods eaten by animals in a meadow ecosystem. Place the animal names in the ecosystem boxes to create a food web of this ecosystem.

c

d

a

b

Goldfinch

Rat Snake

Field Mouse

Barred Owl

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7. According to the food web, what does the frog eat?

• grasshopper

• cricket

• cattail

• shrew