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grade 5 science 2/1
Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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producer | an organism that can make its own food |
consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
herbivores | a consumer that eats only plants |
carnivore | a consumer that eats only animals |
omnivores | a consumer that eats both plants and animals |
scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on dead organism's bodies |
decomposer | breaks down waste and dead organisms and returns saw materilas to the ecosystem |
food chain | a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy |
food web | consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one level to another in a food web |