2.1 - Biotic Components
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Practice Questions
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What is a producer?
💡 Hint: Think about plants and sunlight.
Name one type of consumer.
💡 Hint: Consider who eats plants.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What do we call organisms that produce their own food?
💡 Hint: Think of plants and photosynthesis.
Are secondary consumers carnivores that eat herbivores?
💡 Hint: Recall the flow of energy in food chains.
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Consider a forest ecosystem. Describe how energy flows through producers, consumers, and decomposers, and explain what would happen if one part of this system was removed.
💡 Hint: Think about the balance between each component.
Create an intricate food web that includes at least five different organisms as producers, consumers, and decomposers. Explain how they are interlinked.
💡 Hint: Start with producers and build the connections carefully.
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