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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that can make its own food |
| consummer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| herbivores | consumers that only eat plants |
| carnivores | consumers that only eat animals |
| omnivors | consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organism s |
| decomposers | break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem |
| food chain | a series of events in which on organism eats another and obtains energy |
| food web | consists of the many overlapping food chains in a ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |