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Chaptet 5
Ecosystem
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| producer | A living things such as a plant that can make its own food. |
| consumer | A living thing that cant make its own food and must eat other living things. |
| herbivor | An animal that eats eat only plants or producers |
| carnivore | an animal that eats only other animals |
| ommivore | an animal that eats both plants and other animals |
| decomposer | a living thing that feeds on the wastes of plants and animal |
| habitat | an environment that meets the needs of an organism |
| niche | the role of an organism in its hapitat |
| food chain | a series of organism that depend on one another for food |
| prey | consumers that are eaten by predators |
| predator | a consumer that are eaten by a prey |
| food web | a group of food chains that overlap |
| energy pyramid | a diagram showing how much energy is passed from one orginsm to the next in a food chain |