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Energy Flow in Ecosystems

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    How energy flows through ecosystems: Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids
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  • Many interconnected food chains form a ____.
    Food web
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  • What do the arrows in a food web represent?
    The flow of energy
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  • What is this a picture of?
    food chain
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  • Producer, consumer, or decomposer?
    Consumer
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  • Producer, consumer, or decomposer?
    Decomposer
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  • Where do producers get their energy in a food chain?
    The sun
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  • Producer, consumer, or decomposer?
    Producer
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  • What animal is the apex predator in this food chain?
    The seal
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  • In an energy pyramid, how much energy moves up each level? (Answer is a percentage)
    Approximately 10%
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  • Which is the correct food chain?
    sunflower, insect, mouse, owl
    sunflower, mouse, insect, owl
    mouse, sunflower, insect, owl
    owl, insect, mouse, sunflower
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  • Alligators eat frogs, turtles, fish, mice, and birds. What role does it fill in the ecosystem?
    producer
    scavenger
    decomposer
    consumer
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  • A group of the same species of organisms living in an ecosystem
    a population
    community
    ecosystem
    species
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  • All the different species of organisms living in an ecosystem
    a community
    consumer
    scavenger
    population
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  • All of the living and nonliving features that interact in a particular environment
    consumer
    An ecosystem
    community
    habitat
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  • An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals, returning matter back into the soil, is called a
    decomposer
    competitor
    producer
    herbivore
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  • Which would most likely harm a habitat?
    sunlight
    planting trees
    sunlight
    water pollution
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