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Food Chains & Webs
| organism | any single living thing |
| food chain | the path of the transfer of food energy between organisms in an ecosystem |
| food web | a diagram that shows the relationships between many foods chains within a single ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy available to pass from one level of a food chain to the next |
| arrows | represent the flow of energy in a food chain |
| consumer | an organism that eats other living things |
| producer | a plant that makes its food through photosynthesis |
| carnivore | a consumer that eats only meat |
| omnivore | a consumer that eats plants and meat |
| herbivore | a consumer that eats only plants |
| sun | source of all energy in the food chain |
| decomposer | breaks down dead plants and animals |