Food Chains and Food Webs

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What does a food web represent?

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

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

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

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An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:

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Producer

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What is this called?

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Food Chain

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Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

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More than one organism may eat them.

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What is a producer?

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An organism that makes its own food using sunlight.

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that eats other organisms for energy.

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What is a decomposer?

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An organism that breaks down dead material and recycles nutrients back into the ecosystem.

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What is a food chain?

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A linear sequence showing how energy flows from one organism to another.

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What is the role of herbivores in a food web?

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Herbivores are primary consumers that eat plants.