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You go on a canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in Northern Minnesota. This ecosystem is cold most of the year and receives plenty of rainfall. It has many lakes that are full of walleye fish. You know that walleye like to eat minnows. In turn, the minnows feed on scuds (zooplankton) which eat algae (phytoplankton).In this system, the zooplankton are theMultiple Choicetertiary consumers.secondary consumers.producers.decomposers.primary consumers.

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You go on a canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in Northern Minnesota. This ecosystem is cold most of the year and receives plenty of rainfall. It has many lakes that are full of walleye fish. You know that walleye like to eat minnows. In turn, the minnows feed on scuds (zooplankton) which eat algae (phytoplankton).In this system, the zooplankton are theMultiple Choicetertiary consumers.secondary consumers.producers.decomposers.primary consumers.

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The zooplankton in this system are the primary consumers.

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