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ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a producer? | Producers use cellular respiration to supply the energy they need to live. Cellular respiration is the chemical reaction that releases the energy in glucose. |
| What is a (primary) consumer? | Organisms that cannot make their own energy are called consumers. Consumers that eat producers to get energy are primary consumers, and are herbivores. |
| What is a herbivore? | A herbivore is a plant eater |
| What is a secondary consumer? | A secondary consumer is the one who eats the primary consumer, is a carnivore, omnivore, or scavenger. |
| What is a third or tertiary consumer? | A third consumer is the one who eats the secondary consumer, is a carnivore, omnivore, or scavenger. |
| What is an omnivore? | A omnivore is something that eats plants and other animals. |
| What are carnivores? | A carnivore is something that only eats meat. |
| What is a scavenger? | A scavenger is a consumer that eats already dead concumers. |
| What is a decomposer? | A decomposer is an organism which breaks down dead organic matter so that the nutrients can be reused by plants. |
| What is a food chain? | A food chain is the transfer of energy from sun to producer, to primary consumer, to secondary consumer, to tertiary consumer. |
| What is a food web? | A food web is interconnected food chains. They show the feeding relationships in an ecosystem. |
| What is an ecosystem? | A system in which living things interact with themselves and their non-living environment in such a way that the entire system is perpetuated. |
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