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food web
Term | Definition |
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Photosynthesis | the process in plants that produce food for the plants and oxygen |
producer | an organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis |
consumer | an organism that eats other organisms |
herbivore | animals that only eat plants |
carnivore | animals that only eat other animals |
omnivore | animals that eat both plants and animals |
decomposer | an organism that eats dead or decaying matter and changes it into nutrients or minerals. |
food web | a useful diagram for displaying the feeding relationships among all the organisms in a ecosystem |
trophic level | the level in a food web in which energy is transferred though |
parasite | an organism that feeds on host |
mutually beneficial | a relationship where both organisms recive something positive |
symbiotic relationships | interaction between two or more species |