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2-1 green txt book
science txtbook chapter 2 section 1 energy flows into energy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that makes its own food. |
| consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
| decomposer | they break down wastes and dead organisms and return raw materials to the ecosystem. |
| herbivore | consumers who only eat plants. |
| carnivore | consumers that eat only animals. |
| omnivore | consumers that eat both plants and animals. |
| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
| food chain | a series of events in which one organisms eats another and obtains energy. |
| food web | consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
| energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |