Food Chain Energy

What is the first source of energy for all food webs?

• Plants

• Sunlight

• Mineral in the soil

• Decomposers

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.

• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 

• How carnivores get their food. 

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Why will having fewer insects affect the mice?

• The mice will not have enough insects to eat.

• It will not affect the mice.

• The mice will have too many insects to eat.

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In the food chain pictured, the source of energy for the water plant is ______.

• Sun

• Water Plant

• Mayfly

• Trout

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Which picture would be third to show the flow of energy through the food chain.

• Snake

• Sun

• Carrot

• Rabbit

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Which picture would be fourth to show the flow of energy through the food chain.

• Snake

• Sun

• Carrot

• Rabbit

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What do the arrows indicate in a food web?

• What eats what

• Where the energy is being transferred

• How the animals are related

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The direction of the flow of energy in a food web is represented by ___

• Light bulbs

• Dotted Lines

• Arrows

• Bubbles

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What does every food chain start with?

• producers

• sun

• consumer

• decomposers

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A consumer gets energy by doing what?

• Making it themselves.

• Breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returning raw materials to the ecosystem.

• Soaking it up from the ground.

• Feeding on other organisms.

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