The Food Web

Match these organisms with their place on the food chain.

• Secondary Consumer

• Gambusia

• Tertiary Consumer

• Alligator

• Top predator

• Periphyton

• Primary Consumer

• Mosquito Larva

• Producer

• Great Blue Heron

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A food​ (a)   is a simple way to show the flow of matter and ​ (b)   through an ecosystem.

• chain
• energy
• web
• water

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A food ​ (a)   is made up of many different ​ (b)   food ​ (c)   and models the ​ (d)   of an ecosystem.

• web
• intersecting
• chains
• complexity
• simplicity
• parallel

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The Florida Panther is a ________ occupying the top tier of the food web

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A animal that eats both plants and animals like the Purple Gallinule.

The Burmese Python is an example of an __________ species that doesn't belong in this Everglade food web.

What might happen if an organism is removed and plucked out of the 'tapestry' of the Everglade food web?

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