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Food Webs Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Photosynthesis | The process in plants that produce food for the plants and oxygen. |
Producer | An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis. |
Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms. |
Herbivore | Animals that eat only plants. |
Carnivore | Animals that eat only other animals. |
Omnivore | Animals that eat both plants and animals. |
Decomposer | An organism that eats dead or decaying matter and changes it into nutrients or minerals. |
Food Web | A useful diagram for displaying the feeding relationships among all the organisms in an ecosystem. |
Trophic Level | The level in a food web in which energy is transferred through. |
Parasite | An organism that feeds on a host. |
Symbiotic Relationships | Interactions between two or more species. |
Mutually Beneficial (Mutualism) | A relationship where both organisms receive something positive. |
Commensalism | One species gets food or other benefits without harming the other species. |