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kelp forest
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis |
| consumer | an organism that eats other organisms |
| herbivore | animals that eat only plants |
| carnivore | animals that eats only 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 a ecosystems |
| biomass | is the total amount of organisms in a specific area |
| fungus | a decomposer feeding on organism 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 |