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Key Terms
Question | Answer |
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Producers | an organism that can make its own food |
Herbivore | organisms that only eat plants |
Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding off of other organisms |
Omnivore | Consumers that eat both plants and animals |
Scavenger | a carnivore that feeds off a dead organisms |
food chain | a series of events in which one organism eat another to obtain energy. |
food web | many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
Carnivore | organisms that only eat animals |
energy pyramid | shows the amount f energy that moves from one feeding level to another in an food web |
Decomposers | break down the waste and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem |