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Food Chains and More
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An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
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An animal that eats plants or other animals.

What is a consumer?

100

A diagram that shows how much energy flows through a food web or ecosystem 

What is a energy  pyramid?

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Why are decomposers important organisms in a food web? A) They produce oxygen. B) They prey on carnivores. C) They are food for producers D) They return nutrients to the soil

 D) What is they return nutrients to the soil?

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a food web is made of many 

food chains 

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An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
200
An organism that breaks down dead or decaying plant or animal material.
What is a decomposer?
200

Consider this food chain: sun => grass=> grasshopper=> mouse => snake=> worms ; Which organism is an herbivore?

What is the grasshopper?

200

Consider the food chain: sun =>  grass=> grasshopper=> frog=> snake ; which type of organism is missing 

decomposer 

200

Which type of organism is  fungus? A) carnivore B) omnivore C) herbivore D) decomposer

What is D, decomposer?

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An organism that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
300

A group  of food chains within an ecosystem 

What is a food web?

300

Consider this food chain: sun => blackberries=> bird=> leopard => mushrooms ;  Which organism is the carnivore?

What is the leopard ?

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How much energy is transferred from organism to organism in an energy pyramid or through energy transfer? 

10% 

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When a frog eats a grasshopper, how much of the grasshopper's energy is transferred to the frog? A) 10% B) 25% C) 50% D) 90%

What is A, 10%?

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An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400

an arrow in food chains and food webs represents -> 

energy transfer 

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Consider this food chain: sun -> acorn tree-> squirrels-> hawks-> fungi  Which of these is the producer?

What is the acorn tree?

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Which of the following organism is NOT consumer in the food chain? A) hawk B) gorilla C) squirrel D) earthworm

earthworm 

400

What is the job of  decomposers ? 

because they break down dead plants and animals 

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This  shows the flow of energy from one organism to another.

What is a food chain?

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the first source of energy is ______1_______and the last organism in all ecosystems is_______2__________

1. sun

2. decomposer 

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 Living and non-living things interacting in an area is called a_________1________ but, in class we are making an _______2________

What is a 1 ecosystem   2. eco-column 

500

 Photosynthesis is the process by which plants

make food, glucose or sugar 

500

How do decomposers benefit plants? 

They add nutrients to the soil