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Unit #2 bubblez2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producers | organisms that use sunlight directly to make food |
| Consumers | organisms that eat other organisms |
| What are the main three examples of Consumers? | Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores |
| Herbivore | a consumer that eats only plants Ex: grasshoppers, praire dogs, bison, etc. |
| Carnivore | a consumer that eats animal Ex: coyotes, hawks, badgers, owls |
| Omnivores | consumers that eat both plants and animals Ex: insects, lizards, grass seeds |
| Scavengers | omnivores that eat dead plants and animals |
| Decomposers | organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms; they are the world's natural recyclers |
| Food Chain | a diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another |
| Food Web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem |
| Energy Pyramid | a diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy |
| What are all the steps of the Food Web? | 1. Producers 2. 1st Level (Primary) Consumers 3. 2nd Level Consumers 4. 3rd Level (Tertiary) Consumers |
| What do the arrows represent in an energy pyramid? | energy being lost in the process of one level to the next. |