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What types of organisms are producers?
What are plants?
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I eat only plants. What am I?
What is a herbivore
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a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

What is a food chain.

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How many trophic levels are in a normal food chain?

4

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How do producers make food?

Photosynthesis. Or suns energy

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True or False? Energy enters all ecosystems as sunlight.
What is True.
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I eat only meat. What am I?
What is a Carnivore?
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many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

What is food web.

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How do organisms obtain energy?

What is by consuming/eating.

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In an energy pyramid what gives off the most energy for the ecosystem? 

Producers

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What happens to the amount of organisms as they go up the food pyramid?

Lowers.  Gets smaller, shrinks, less numbers

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I eat both meat and animals. What am I?
What is an omnivore?
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A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic feeding level to another in a food web.

What is an energy pyramid?

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How much energy is transferred from one organism to another when feeding on one another?

What is 10 percent. (lose 90%)

300

Looking at the food chain, how does the frog receive energy?

Algae -> Water Beetle -> Frog -> Kingfisher 

Water Beetle 

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List two major groups of decomposers.
What is bacteria and fungi.
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Energy flows from the producer level to the ________________ level.

Consumer

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Which diagram is a more realistic portrayal of how an ecosystem transfers energy: food web or food chain? Explain.

What is food web.

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What role do humans play in the food web?

Consumer.

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Energy flows through ecosystems: this can be demonstrated visually by food chains, food webs and what else?

Energy Pyramid

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What are the three energy roles all organisms in the ecosystem fit into?
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.
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What kind of organism is a Heterotroph?

Consumer

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I break down waste and dead organisms. What am I?
What is a decomposer?
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What type of energy is lost at each trophic level? 

Heat Energy 

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Consumers include all animals and fungi. What is another living thing that is a consumer in nature?

Bacteria