Misconception |
Reference* |
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Plants take in food from the outside environment,
and/or plants get their food from the soil via roots.
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Bell 1985, Smith & Anderson 1984 |
Organisms higher in a food web eat everything that
is lower in the food web.
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Griffiths & Grant 1985 |
The top of the food chain has the most energy because
it accumulates up the chain.
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Adeniyi 1985 |
Populations higher on a food web increase in size
because they deplete those lower in the web.
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Munson 1991, 1994 |
| More herbivores than carnivores because people keep and breed herbivores. |
Leach et al. 1996 |
| Decomposers release some energy that is cycled back to plants. |
Lavoie 1997 |
| The number of producers is high to satisfy consumers. |
Leach et al. 1996 |
| Plants do not live in water. |
Adeniyi 1985 |
| Plants are dependent on humans, not vice versa. |
Eisen and Stavy 1992 |
| Carbon dioxide is a source of energy for plants. |
Lavoie 1997 |
| Energy is not lost in trophic transfer. |
D'Avanzo 2003 |
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*Complete references are available on the Resources
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