Food Chains and Webs Flashcards

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What do food chains show?

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The tranfer of energy between organisms

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In food chains what do the arrows represent?

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The direction of energy tranfer

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What do food webs show?

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How lots of food chains are connected in an ecosystem

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What is a herbivore?

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A type of consumer that eats the producer

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What is a producer?

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Abgreen plant/ algae that makes its own food

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What is a carnivore?

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A type of consumer that eats otger animals

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What is an omnivore?

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A type of consumer that eats producers and other animals

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What is a prey?

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an organism eaten by another organism.

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What is a predator?

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an organism that eats another organism.

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What is Bioaccumulation?

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The build uo of chemicals, like insecticides, passed along a food chain

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