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Ecosystems Vocab
Decomposers Unit Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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decomposer | an organism that breaks down dead or decaying plant and animal materials |
fungi | plant-like organisms that get energy from other organisms which may be living or dead |
bacteria | a type of single cell organism |
producer | an organism that uses energy from the Sun to make its own food |
consumer | an organism that cannot make its own food |
food chain | the path that energy and nutrients follow among living things in an ecosystem |
food web | shows how food chains in an ecosystem are overlapped or linked |
energy flow | the movement of energy from one organism to another in a food chain or food web |