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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant

• Sun

• Deer

• Wolf

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Which of the following would be the most likely effect, if there were a sudden increase in the cricket population?

• There would be a decrease in the small bird population.

• There would be a decrease in the grass/flowers population.

• There would be a decrease in the mice population.

• There would be an increase in the grass/flowers population.

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Why will having fewer insects affect the mice?

• The mice will not have enough insects to eat.

• It will not affect the mice.

• The mice will have too many insects to eat.

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

• The insects in the habitat would increase.

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

• The willow tree population would decrease.

• Foxes would dies due to no food source. 

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Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them.

• They may eat more than one other organism.

• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources.

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_________ cannot make their own food, so they need to consume (eat) plants or animals.

• consumers

• producers

• decomposers

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The  ____________ provides all the initial energy to plants.

• sun

• moon

• environment

• water

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____ make their own food through photosynthesis. 

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

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What does a food chain contain? Choose ALL correct answers.

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• all of the above

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__________ eat decaying matter, dead plants and animals and in the process they break them down. 

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer