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What is the primary role of plants in most food webs?

• Plants are decomposers.

• Plants are consumers.

• Plants provide energy to consumers.

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With what do all food chains and food webs begin?

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

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Example of a decomposer

• fungus

• mouse

• plants

• frogs

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What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

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The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket

• grasshopper

• frog

• snake

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.

• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.

• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 

• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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What is this called?

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Abiotic Factors

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Which organisms transfer the most energy in a food web?

• plants

• animals

• consumers

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What would happen to the animals in an area if all of the producers were destroyed?

• Nothing would happen.

• They would all die or leave to find food elsewhere.

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What does it mean for consumers to compete for food?

• They eat the same food source.

• They use the sun's energy to produce their own food.

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