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Question | Answer |
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producer | an organism that can make its own food |
consummer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
herbivores | consumers that only eat plants |
carnivores | consumers that only eat animals |
omnivors | consumers that eat both plants and animals |
scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organism s |
decomposers | break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem |
food chain | a series of events in which on organism eats another and obtains energy |
food web | consists of the many overlapping food chains in a ecosystem |
energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |