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Chapter 2
Energy flow In Ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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Producer | An organism that can make it's own food. |
Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
Herbivores | Consumers that eat only plants. |
Carnivores | Consumers that the only animals. |
Omnivores | consumers that eat both plants and animals. |
Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
Decomposers | Decomposers breakdown waste and dead Organisms and return the raw Materials to the ecosystem. |
Food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. |
Food Web | A food web consists Of the many Overlapping food chains In an Ecosystem. |
Energy Pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in an food web. |