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Energy Transfer
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | An Organism that uses energy from the sun to make its own food |
| Consumer | Organisms that cannot make their own food and must eat (consume) other organisms to gain energy |
| Decomposer | Organisms that break down dead or decaying plant and animal material in order to get energy |
| Energy Flow | Arrows are used in food chains and food web models to show the direction that energy moves through the chain/web |
| Population | The number of one single type of organism within a given area |
| Food Chain | A path that energy/nutrients follow; a model of the series of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem |
| Food Web | A model that shows how a series of food chains are linked together in an ecosystem |
| Herbivore | Consumers that eat only plants. |
| Carnivore | Consumers that eat only meat. |
| Omnivore | Consumers that eat both plants and meat. |