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Ecosytems
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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producers | organisms like plants and algae that use the sun's energy to make its own food |
consumers | organism that eats another organism |
decomposer | organism that breaks down dead, organic matter |
food chain | a model that shows the path of energy flow and nutrients to different organisms in an ecosystem |
scavenger | an animal that eats animals they did not hunt or catch |
herbivore | an animal that only eats plants |
carnivore | an animal that only eats meat |
somnivore | an animal that eats both plants and animals |
predator | an animal that hunts another animal for its food source (prey) |
prey | an animal that is hunted by a predator |
food web | a complex ecosystem with more than one food chain combined |
ecosystem | an area where living and non living things interact in an environment |