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Food Chain
Vocabulary on Food Chain
Question | Answer |
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What is a producer? | An organism that makes something. Like trees, grasses and the sun. |
What is a carnivore? | An animal that feeds on flesh |
What is a consumer? | An organism within a community that feeds upon plants or other animals |
What is a decomposer? | An organism that decomposes organic material. Like soil, bacteria, or fungus |
A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food is an example of what? | food chain |
What is a herbivore? | An animal that feeds on plants. |
An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form is called what? | An organism |
What is biotic? | Living factors in the environment, like plants and animals. |
What is abiotic? | Nonliving factors in the environment, such as weather, soil, and temperature |
What is a heterotroph? | An organism that gets its energy from a source outside of itself |
What is an autotroph? | An organism that makes its own energy |