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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what are organisms that make their own food ?? | Producers make their own food |
| what are organisms that cannot make their own energy? | consumers make their own energy |
| what are Primary consumers / herbivores(plant eaters)? | Consumers eat producers to get energy |
| what is a secondary consumer? | A consumer eats a primary consumer to get energy |
| what is a tertiary consumer? | A consumers eats a secondary consumers |
| what are omnivores( plants and meat eaters)? | Consumers eat producers and other consumers |
| what are Carnivores (meat eater only)? | Consumers only eat other consumers |
| what are scavengers? | Consumers that eat other consumers that have already died |
| what are decomposeres? | Organisms which break down dead organic matter so that that nutrients be reused by plants |
| what is a food chain? | The transfer of energy from sun to producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer to tertiary consumer can be shown in a food chain |
| what is a food wed? | Are interconnected food chains- they show the feeding relationships in an ecosystem |
| what is a ecosystem? | Is a system in which living things interact with themselves and their non- living environment in such a way that the entire system is perpetuated |