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What are food chains and webs?
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Food chains and webs begin with the energy from the sun
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What is a food chain?
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A food chain shows us what eats what in a community.
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What is a food web?
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A food webs is made up of interconnected food chains. It can be drawn for any environment and it gives us a more complete picture of what eats what.
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Where does a food chain always begin with?
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Food chains always begins with the sun, then a green plant.
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Producers
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Green plants use the sun's energy to produce food energy
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Consumers
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Animals that get their energy from eating other living things
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Primary consumers
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Animals that eat the producers
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Secondary consumers
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Animals that eat the primary consumers
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Tertiary consumers
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Animals that eat secondary consumers
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Herbivores
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Animals that only eat plants
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