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What is a food chain? |
It models how energy flows in an ecosystem through feeding relations |
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What is a food web? |
It is a model that shows several connected food chains. |
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Which organisms in an energy pyramid have the most energy available to them? |
The producers |
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Which organism in an energy pyramid has the least energy available |
A carnivore and consumer |
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What does an energy pyramid have in common with a food chain and a food web? |
They are both based on the transfer of materials and energy from one trophic to another. |
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Carnivore |
Animals that subsist on a diet consisting only of meat |
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Consumer |
A heterotrophic organism that feeds on other organisms in a food chain. |
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Herbivore |
any organism that eats only plants. |
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Producer |
a green plant or bacterium, which is part of the first level of a food chain. |
