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4th Food Web
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Food Chain | The sequence of the transfer of food energy from one organism to another in an ecological community. A food chain begins with a producer, usually a green plant or alga that creates its own food through photosynthesis. |
| Food Web: | a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains. |
| Predator: | an animal that naturally preys on others |
| Prey: | an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food |
| Producer: | any green plant or any of various microorganisms that can convert light energy into food |
| Consumer: | any animals that preys on plants or other animals |
| Herbivore: | a kind of animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants |
| Carnivore: | a kind of animal that depends only on flesh or meat of other organisms for their nutrition |
| Omnivore: | a kind of animal that eats either other animals or plants |
| Decomposer | an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that breaks down dead material |
| complete metamorphosis | an insect goes through four distinct stages: Egg. Larva. Pupa. |
| Incomplete metamorphosis | an insect hatches from an egg and then goes through several nymphal stages. Each nymphal stage looks like a small version of the adult but getting slightly bigger with age. |
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