Ecology Food Chain & Web

What is a producer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.
• Organism that eat other organisms for energy
• Organism that eat other dead organisms

Where do all life forms get their energy?

• Food

• Water

• Plants

• The Sun

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An animal that eats other animals is a....

• carnivore
• omnivore
• herbivore
• decomposer

Animals that are being hunted and eaten

• prey
• predator

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Animals that hunt and eat other animals

• prey

• predator

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Recently, a family of bobcats(predator) moved into an area with a large rabbit(prey) population. What changes may occur in the food chain?

• The rabbit population may increase

• The rabbit population may decrease

• The rabbit population may increase first, then decrease

• The rabbit population will remain the same

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A population of mice lives in a barn community. A cat population has just joined the community. What will happen?

• Mouse and cat populations both go up?
• Mouse and cat populations both go down
• Mouse population goes down as cat population goes up
• Mouse population goes up as cat population goes down

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An animal that eats only plants is an...

• carnivore
• omnivore
• herbivore
• decomposer

Where an animal lives is called the animal's ______

• wildlife
• habitat
• environment 
• carnivore 

An animal that hunts and eats other animals.

Pick 3 answers.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• predator

• prey

• consumer

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