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Ch. 2 Lesson 1
Question | Answer |
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Producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
Herbivore | A consumer that obtains energy by eating only plants. |
Carnivore | A consumer that obtains energy by eating of animals |
Omnivore | A consumer that obtains energy by eating both plants and animals. |
Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead or decaying organisms. |
Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by breaking biotic 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 or being eaten. |
Food Web | The pattern of overlapping feeding relationships or food chains among 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. |