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Ecosystems and Biome
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | Are the sources of all the food in an ecosystem. |
| Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
| Herbivores | Consumers that eat only plants. |
| Carnivores | Consumers that eat only animals. |
| Omnivores | Consumers that eat both plant and animals. |
| Scavenger | Is a carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms. |
| Decomposers | Break down biotic wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem. |
| Food Chain | A series of an events in witch one organism eats another and obtains energy. |
| Food Web | Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
| Energy Pyramid | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |