5.3 - Food Chains and Food Webs
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Practice Questions
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What is a food chain?
💡 Hint: Think of a simple model of feeding relationships.
List the first trophic level in a food chain.
💡 Hint: These are organisms that make their own food.
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What is the primary function of a food chain?
💡 Hint: Think about the direction of energy flow.
True or False: A food web is more complex than a food chain.
💡 Hint: Consider the network of relationships.
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Challenge Problems
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Construct a food web for a coastal ecosystem including organisms such as seaweed, crabs, fish, seals, and sharks. Explain the interactions.
💡 Hint: Think of how each organism might feed on one another.
Propose a conservation strategy to protect an endangered species within a food web. How would this affect the overall ecosystem?
💡 Hint: Consider the role of the endangered species in its food web.
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