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Food Webs
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | A living thing |
| Producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms for food |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste |
| Food chain | A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten |
| Food web | a system of interlocking food chains |
| Photosynthesis | process by which producers use the energy in sunlight to create their own food |
| Population | All of the same species in an area |
| carnivore | A consumer that eats only other animals |
| omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals |
| Herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants |
| Keystone Species | a species that an ecosystem depends on for balance |