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Food Chains/Food Webs
Term | Definition |
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Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms (plants and or animals) for food |
Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste |
Dependent | To rely on someone or something else |
Ecosystem | A unit consisting of living organisms and the environment that they live in |
Food chain | A representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem |
Food web | Representation of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem; includes the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers through multiple pathways |
Habitat | The place where an organism lives; habitats supply the organism with food, shelter, moisture, and temperature for survival |
Overpopulation | Having too many people or organisms in a particular area, straining available resources and impacting the environment |
Photosynthesis | Process by which producers / plants use the energy in sunlight to create their own food |
Producer | An organism that makes its own food (e.g., plants) |