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Kelp Forest
lessons 4-5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis |
| Consumer | An organism that eats other organisms |
| Herbivore | Animals that only eat plants |
| Carnivore | Animals that only eat other animals |
| Omnivores | Animals that eat both plants and animals |
| Decomposer | An organism that eats dead or decaying matter and changes it into nutrients or minerals |
| Food Web | A useful diagram for displaying the feeding relationship among all the organisms in an ecosystem |
| Biomass | Is the total amount of organisms in a specific area |
| Fungus | A decomposer feeding on organic matter that produces spores |
| Organic Matter | Matter that comes from or is in an organism that contains carbon compounds |
| Organic Waste | Any material that is biodegradable and comes from either a plant or an animal |
| Uptake | To absorb or consume matter into a living organism, tissue, or cell |