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science 4-1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | The source of all the food in an ecosystem. |
| Consumer | An organism that obtains. |
| Herbivore | Consumers that only eat plants. |
| Carnivore | Consumers that only eat animals. |
| Omnivore | Consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms. |
| Decomposer | Break down wastes 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 | Consists of 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. |