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Ch. 2, Sec 1, Terms
Chapter 2, Section 1, Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | An organism that can make its own foos |
| Herbivore | Consumers that only eat plants |
| Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| Carnivore | Consumers that only eat meat |
| Omnivore | Consumers that eat both meat and plants |
| Scavenger | An organism that obtains energy by feeding off of dead organisms bodies |
| Decomposer | An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem |
| Food Chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy |
| Food Web | Many overlapping food chains |
| Energy Pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another |