Energy Flow Through Food Webs

An heterotroph is another word for a ________, meaning it needs to ________

• Consumer, eat other organisms

• Consumer, go through photosynthesis

• Producer, make its own food

• Producer, survive without water

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Consumers...

• Make their own food

• Go through photosynthesis

• Eat other organisms

• Breathe in carbon dioxide

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Mushroom (Fungus)

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Consumer

Falcon

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Producer

What do the arrows in a food web represent?

• mass

• energy flow

• matter

• organisms

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The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Secondary Consumer

• Primary Consumer

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In the food web pictured here, flies provide energy for...

• Dragonflies, Turtles, & Frogs

• Slugs & Fish

• Water Weeds & Algae

• Snakes, Frogs, & Kingfishers

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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant

• Sun

• Deer

• Wolf

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant

• Rabbit

• Mouse

• Hawk

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What happens as you move higher in the energy pyramid?

• more organisms

• fewer organisms

• number of organisms does not change

• organisms die

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