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Food Webs
Food webs vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Overlapping food chains | food web |
Organisms that make their own food | producers |
Organisms that eat producers only | primary consumers |
Organisms that eat primary consumers | secondary consumers |
Organisms that break down wastes | decomposers |
An interaction when a predator hunts a prey | parasitism |
An interaction when one benefits and the other is not effect | commensalism |
An interaction when both organisms benefit | mutualism |
The hunted | prey |
The hunter | predator |
Energy always enters an ecosystem from the _______. | Sun |
When an organism consumes another organism it will obtain __________ of the energy. | 10% |
An interaction between 2 organisms that benefits at least one. There are 3 types: parasitism, commensalism and mutualism. | symbiosis |