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Key Terms sec.1
Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| herbivores | organisms that eat plants |
| carnivores | organisms that eat meat |
| omnivores | organisms that eat both plants and meat |
| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| decomposers | break down wastes and dead organisms |
| food chain | a series of events where one organism eats another |
| food web | a diagram which consists of overlapping food chains |
| energy pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another |
| Leielani Ealey | Period 6 |