Food Chains and Webs

All are types of consumers except

• producer

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

Type of organism that only eats plants.

• omnivore

• carnivore

• decomposer

• herbivore

Type of organism that only eats meat.

• producer

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

Type of organism that eats both plants and meat.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

• producer

Type of organism that eats something that was once living and returns nutrients to the soil.

• producer

• decomposer

• carnivore

• omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Type of organism that eats the remains of dead organisms.

• decomposer

• producer

• herbivore

• omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A consumer that eats only plants.

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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A consumer that eats a primary consumer.

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary comsumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A consumer that eats either a primary consumer or secondary consumer and is considered the top of the food chain.

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In a food chain, what does the direction of the arrows between organisms represent?

• energy flow through an ecosystem

• population flow through an ecosystem

• nutrient flow through an ecosystem

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