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Ecology7
Science Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producers | The organisms that made them own food. |
| Consumers | The organisms that cannot make them own energy. |
| Primary consumers | The consumer that eat producer to get energy. |
| Herbivores | The consumer that eat others to get energy. (Plant-eaters) |
| Secondary consumer | The consumer that eat a primary consumer for energy. |
| Tertiary consumer | The consumers that eat the secondary consumers to get energy. |
| Omnivores | The consumers that eat producers & other consumers. |
| Carnivores | The consumers that only eat other consumers. (Meat eaters) |
| Scavengers | The consumers that eat other consumers that have already died. |
| Decomposers | The organisms which break down dead organic matter so that the nutrients can be reused by plants. |
| Food chain | Is the transfer of energy from sun to producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer to tertiary. |
| Food webs | Are interconnected food chains. |
| 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. |