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Ecosystems
Eco Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that gets its energy from the sun |
| primary consumer | an organism that gets its' energy by eating producers |
| secondary consumer | an organism that gets it's energy by eating primary consumers |
| tertiary consumer | an organism that is at the top of the food chain |
| decomposer | an organism that gets it's energy from dead organisms and/or the waste of other organisms |
| herbivore | an organism that opnly eats plants |
| omnivore | an organism that eats plants and animals |
| carnivore | an organism that only eats other organisms |
| individual | one, a single example of a species |
| population | all of the same species living in a given area |
| community | all of the populations of different species living in a given area |
| ecosystem | the community plus the abiotic stuff in a given area |
| biotic | living or was once living |
| abiotic | nonliving and never was living |