Food Chains and Food Webs

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What does a food chain represent?

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A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

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What is an organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy called?

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Consumer

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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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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 in a food chain?

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An organism that can make its own food, usually through photosynthesis.

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What role do decomposers play in a food web?

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They break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem.

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What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

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A food chain shows a single pathway of energy flow, while a food web shows all the interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.

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What is an autotroph?

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An organism that produces its own food from sunlight or chemical energy.

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What happens to a food web if a top predator is removed?

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The populations of prey species may increase, leading to overgrazing or depletion of plants.