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What is a Food Web?

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In this food web worksheet, students will brainstorm organisms and classify them as either a consumer, producer, or decomposer. Students will write the organisms under the correct category in this graphic organizer worksheet.

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consumers, decomposers, producers

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consumer, decomposer, producer, science
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3rd - 5th
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Science
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Graphic Organizers
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