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Organisms
Food Chain/Food Web
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Food Chain | the path of food energy from the Sun, to the producer, then transferred to a series of consumers |
| Food Web | the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem |
| inter | within/inside |
| interconnected | connected within the food web |
| trophic | the position an organism occupies on the food web |
| omnivore | an organism that consumes both animals and plants |
| herbivore | an organism that consumes only plants |
| consumer | an organism that eats |
| Energy Food Webs | a diagram that shows the trophic levels of organisms in a food web |