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A consumer who eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
100

A simple way of showing how energy is passed from one living thing to another living thing.

What is a Food Chain?

100
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
200
A consumer who eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
200

A way of showing how energy moves through a food chain.

What is an Energy Pyramid?

200
Both a food chain and an energy pyramid begin with this organism?
What is a producer?
300
A consumer who only eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
300

A picture showing many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

What is a Food Web?

300
More or Less: Each level of an energy pyramid has __________ energy as you move to the top.
What is less?
400
A consumer who eats the dead remains of animals.
What is a scavenger?
400
True or False: Energy enters most ecosystems as sunlight.
What is true?
400
More or Less: There are ___________ organisms at the highest or top level in an energy pyramid.
What is less?
500
A consumer who breaks down wastes and returns the nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
500
True or False: Producers are the source of all food for an ecosystem.
What is true?
500
More or Less: A food web shows ___________ food choices for what organisms can eat than a food chain.
What is more?
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