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Science 1
Food chains
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| carrying capacity | maximum population an area can support |
| food web | diagram showing the interconnection of the food chains within an ecosystem |
| carnivore | organisms that eats only animals |
| herbivore | organisms that eats only plants |
| consumer | organisms which obtains energy by eating other organisms |
| producer | organism which produces it's own food |
| food chain | diagram of the flow of energy from one organism to another |
| omnivore | organisms that eat both plants and animals |
| scavenger | organism that eats dead plants or plants |