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Bonnie Branch 7th grade - 23-1 / Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Term | Definition |
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producer | An organism that can make its own food |
consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
herbivore | An animal that eats only plants |
carnivore | An animal that only eats other animals |
omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals |
scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
decomposer | An organism that breaks down large chemicals from dead organisms into small chemicals and returns important materials to the soil and water |
food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another |
food web | The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
energy pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |