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unit2ecology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| producers | organism that can make its own food |
| photosymthesis | using a process |
| consumers | organisms that eat other organisms |
| herbivore | a consumer that eats only plants |
| carnivore | a consumer that eats animals |
| omnivores | eats both plants and animals |
| scavengers | omnivores that eat dead plants and animals |
| decomposters | organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms |
| food chain | a diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another |
| food web | diagram that shows the feeding relationship between organisms in an ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | a diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy |
| org. can be divided into 3 groups | 1) producers 2) consumers 3) decomposers |