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Energy Roles
producer, consumer, decomposer, etc.
Question | Answer |
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producer | an organism that uses energy from the sun to produce food/energy for itself and its environment |
consumer | an organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms |
decomposer | an organism that obtains energy from dead organisms |
herbivore | an organism that eats only plants |
carnivore | an organism that eats other organisms |
omnivore | an organism that eats both plants & other organisms |
scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms |
food chain | a series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy |
food web | a series of overlapping food chains |
energy pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
Marlee Michaels | Period 3 |