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Ecology terms
Question | Answer |
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Producer | Organisms that can make glucose during photosynthesis |
Consumers | Organisms that cannot make their own energy |
Primary consumer | cosumer that eats a producer to get energy |
Herbivore | Plant-eaters |
Secondary Consumer | A consumer that eats another consumer for energy |
Carnivore | Meat-eater |
Tertiary consumer | A consumer that eats a consumer that already at a consumer |
Omnivores | Eat plant and animals |
Scavengers | Consumers that eat other consumers that have already died |
Food chain | The transfer of energy from sun to producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer to tertiary consumer |
Food webs | They show the feeding relationshipin an ecosystem |
Decomposers | Organisms which break down dead organic matter so that the nutrients can be reused by plants |
Ecosystem | A system in which living things interact with themselves and their-non-living enviroment in such a way that the entire system is perpetuated |