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EHS - Living Things^
Living Things - 1-2 - Living Things Need Energy
Question | Answer |
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What are the 3 main groups of organisms? | Producers, Consumers, & Decomposers |
What are producers? | Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called producers. |
What process do producers use to make food? | photosynthesis |
What are consumers? | Organisms that eat other organisms are called consumers. |
What is a herbivore? | An organism that eats only plants. |
What is a carnivore? | An organism that eats other animals. |
What is an omnivore? | An organism that eats both plants and animals. |
What is a scavenger? | An omnivore that eat dead plants and animals. |
What is a decomposer? | An organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms. |
What is a food chain? | The pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms. |
What is a food web? | A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem |
What is an energy pyramid? | A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain. |