Food Chains and Food Webs Practice

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What do the arrows in a food chain or web represent?

Back

They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms.

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What is the process called where plants use energy from the sun to create food?

Back

Photosynthesis

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What type of organism feeds on decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces?

Back

Detritivore

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What is a producer?

Back

An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food.

Front

Which organism is considered the tertiary consumer in a food chain?

Back

Hawk

Front

What is a food chain?

Back

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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What is a food web?

Back

A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

Front

What role do primary producers play in an ecosystem?

Back

They convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis.

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What is a consumer?

Back

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

Front

What is the difference between herbivores and carnivores?

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Herbivores eat plants, while carnivores eat other animals.