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Stepping Stones |
Pitstop Check
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A food chain shows how energy passes from one organism to another. |
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What does a food chain show? |
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Food chains begin with a producer, which is normally a green plant. |
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What do food chains start with? |
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Green plants get their energy from the sun through photosynthesis. |
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How do plants get energy? Testing leaves for presence of starch |
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Organisms that eat other organisms are called consumers. |
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What is a consumer? |
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The first consumer in a food chain is called the primary consumer. The second the secondary consumer and the third the tertiary. The final consumer is called the top consumer. |
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What is the second level in a food chain called? |
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Animals that hunt other animals are called predators, they are unlikely to be primary consumers. |
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What is an animal that hunts another animal called? |
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Food webs are formed by combing the multiple food chains in an ecosystem. |
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How is a food web difference to a food chain? |
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How organisms affect, and are affected by, their environment. |
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A change in the population of an organism in a food web will affect the other organisms in the food chain.
This is known as interdependence. |
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What is it called when changes in a population of one species affect the population of other species? |
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