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Energy and Ecosystem
Energy and Ecosystems vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| producer | organisms that make their own food |
| consumer | eat other living things in order to get the energy they need to live and grow |
| decomposer | are organisms that break down or decompose wastes and the remains of dead organisms. |
| herbivore | An animal that eats only producers |
| predator | A living thing that hunts and eats other animals |
| omnivore | An animal that eats plants and animals. |
| scavenger | A organism that eats dead plants and animals |
| prey | An animals that is hunted by other animals |
| chlorophyll | A green molecule that enables plants to turn water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight into sugars. |
| food web | shows how food chains overlap. |
| food chains | the transfer of food energy from one organism to the next |
| energy pyramid | shows how much energy passes from one organism to another up a food chain. |