Food Chains and Food Webs Practice

Front

What is an animal that gets energy from eating both plants and animals?

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Omnivore

Front

What is a connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem?

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Food web

Front

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web?

Back

The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.

Front

In a food chain, what is the first link where the energy begins?

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Producer

Front

What is the role of a fox in a food web?

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Tertiary Consumer

Front

What do we call animals that only eat plants?

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Herbivores

Front

What do we call animals that only eat other animals?

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Carnivores

Front

What is the term for organisms that break down dead material?

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Decomposers

Front

What is a primary consumer?

Back

An animal that eats producers (plants).

Front

What is a secondary consumer?

Back

An animal that eats primary consumers.