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Science-Unit 10
Food Webs
Term | Definition |
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Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms for food |
Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste |
Dependent | to rely on someone or something else |
Ecosystem | the living and nonliving components (parts) of an area |
Food Web | overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
Habitat | the place where an organism lives |
Model | a picture, idea, or object that represents an object, a system or process and is used to help with understanding. |
Food Chain | a representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem |
Producer | an organism that makes its own food (ex: plants.) |