Food Chains & Food Webs

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All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?

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Sun

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

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Consumer

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An organism that uses sunlight to create its own food is known as a:
Options: Producer, Heterotroph, Consumer, Decomposer

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Producer

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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 do the arrows in a food chain or web represent?

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They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms.

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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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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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The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be: Primary Consumers, Producers, Decomposers, Tertiary Consumers

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Producers

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

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

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The rabbit in this food web would be considered a: Decomposer, Producer, Secondary Consumer, Primary Consumer

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Primary Consumer

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