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enirgy flow
energy flow in ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | An organism that can make its own food. |
| consumer | An organism that obtains it's energy by eating other organisms. |
| herbivore | consumers that eat only plants. |
| carnivore | consumers that eat only animals. |
| omnivore | Consumers that eat only plants and animals. |
| scavenger | A carnivore that eats plants and animals. |
| decomposer | organisms that break down wastes, dead organisms, and turn the raw materials around to make the ecosystem. |
| food chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another organism to get its energy. |
| food web | consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
| energy pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy each feeding level has. |