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| What is a way of showing how the energy from food moves through populations of organisms in a community? |
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What is a way of showing how food chains are related? |
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| What is always the FIRST link in a food chain? |
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a producer (or part of a producer) |
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What do the arrows show in a food chain? |
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the direction that food and energy move along the chain |
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How many links do most food chains have? Why? |
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5 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? |
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| 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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