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Science: Chapter 12-2
What are food chains and food webs?
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6th Grade
03/29/2008

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What is a way of showing how the energy from food moves through populations of organisms in a community?
Definition
food chain
Term

What is a way of showing how

food chains are related?

Definition
a food web
Term
What is always the FIRST link in a food chain?
Definition

a producer

(or part of a producer)

Term

What do the arrows show in a

food chain?

Definition

the direction that food and energy move along the chain

 

Term

How many links do most

food chains have?

Why?

Definition

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because there is less energy available at the last link that at the first

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Why is there less energy at the end of a food chain?
Definition
Every time the energy passes from one organism to another, some of the energy is lost because that organism uses it for their own activities.
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