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Biology 360Noscaope
Term | Definition |
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food web | a system of inter locking and interdependent food chains |
food chain | a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food |
autotroph | an organism that does not need to move in order to find food because it internally and chemically creates it's own food |
decomposer | an organism that feeds on the dead cells of other organisms |
herbivore | an organism that relies on producers as an energy source |
carnivore | an organism that relies on organisms that eat producers as a food sourcce |
omnivore | an organism that obtains energy from both consumers and producers |
abiotic | not living |
biotic | living |
heterotroph | an organism that moves and has external features to obtain energy |