Question $2$

$0\mathrm{.}5$ pts

This is a food chain with three trophic levels, in which the beetles eat the oak tree and the flying squirrel eats the beetles.

Oak tree beetles $-$flying squirrel

A carbon atom that was present in the flying squirrel could end up in the oak tree if

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the flying squirrel died and was decomposed by bacteria and the oak tree absorbed the carbon from the soil

the flying squirrel ate acorns from the oak tree

the flying squirrel ate the beetles, which ate the oak tree

the flying squirrel released carbon as CO $2$ through cellular respiration and the oak tree assimilated the CO $2$ from the air through the process of photosynthesis.