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Section 1
Question | Answer |
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producer | the source of all the food in an ecosystem |
consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
herbivores | consumers that only eat plants |
carnivor | consumers that only eat other animals |
omnivors | consumers that eat both plants and animals |
scavengers | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
decomposers | organism that breaks down wastes 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 | the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
energy pyramid | the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in an ecosystem |