Energy in Food Webs
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Objective
I can describe how energy flows through a food web.
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Key concepts
3 concepts
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A food web is a model that shows all the different food chains in an ecosystem.
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In a food web, the arrows show how energy flows from one organism to another, starting with producers like grass or phytoplankton.
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Food webs show how interconnected ecosystems are, meaning that if one part of the web changes, it can affect the entire ecosystem.
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Practice
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What is the main difference between a food chain and a food web?
In a food web, what do the arrows represent?
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“Describe one path that energy could take from the sun to a tertiary consumer in a food web.”
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