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Chapter 2 lesson 1
Question | Answer |
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Producer | An animal that can make its own food |
Consumer | Obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
Herbivore | Only eats plants |
Carnivore | Only eats animals |
Omnivor | Eats animals and plants |
Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the body of dead or decaying organisms |
Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms and returns raw materials to the soil and water |
Food Chain | A series of events in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten |
Food web | The pattern of overlapping feeding relationships or food chains among the various organisms in an ecosystem |
Energy Pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |