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What is a food chain?
The sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
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What is the base?
The ____ of the pyramid is composed of species called autotrophs, the primary producers of the ecosystem.
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What are phytoplankton.
These are eaten by primary consumers like zooplankton, small fish, and crustaceans.
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What is tertiary?
This type of consumer is known for its ferocity and named after a popular X-Men character
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What is predator?
In a _______ chain, a plant-eating animal is eaten by a flesh-eating animal.
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What is heat?
Within all biological communities, energy at each trophic level is lost in this form.
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Who is plankton?
This character from SpongeBob is a microscopic organism who tries to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula.
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What are deer mice?
This secondary consumer known as, Peromyscus maniculatus, often referred to as a white-footed mouse, is the most abundant and widely distributed mammal in North America.
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What is saprotroph? or What is a fungi?
This organism feeds on nonliving organic matter known as detritus at a microscopic level.
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What is biomass
Herbivores and detritivores (primary consumers) take in less available energy because they are limited by this.
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What is a predator?
A whale is this type of consumer.
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What are producers?
The common Larch and Bunchberry are examples of this.
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What is a trophic level?
This is a step in a nutritive series, or food chain, of an ecosystem.
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What are phytoplankton?
The trophic structure of the ocean is built on plankton, specifically this.
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What is invasive?
This type of species ,such as the lionfish, are harmful to all food webs.
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What is grass?
This plant is a producer while also being the most common of any producer on land.
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What is a terrestrial food chain?
This food chain features producers, consumers, and decomposers.
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What are heterotrophs?
All other organisms in the ecosystem are consumers called this, which either directly or indirectly depend on the primary producers for food energy.
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What is primary?
These types consumers are in turn eaten by fish, small sharks, corals, and baleen whales.
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What are decomposers?
The wine-cap, turkey tail, and morel fungi are all this type of consumer.
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