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5 Ecosystems
Food Webs TEK 5.9B
Term | Definition |
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Carnivore | A meat eater; a secondary consumer. |
Consumer | An organism that must eat to get its energy. |
Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms. |
Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment. |
Flow of Energy | The movement of energy through a food chain or web. |
Food Chain | A model that shows the path of energy as it flows from one living thing to the next. |
Food Web | A diagram showing several food chains linked together. |
Herbivore | A plant eater; a primary consumer. |
Omnivore | An organism that eats both plants and animals. |
Organism | Any living thing. |
Producer | An organism that makes its own food; a plant. |
Sun | The star at the center of the solar system. It is a hot ball of gases that gives off great amounts of energy. |
Transfer of Energy | When energy is moved from one organism to another through eating. |