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chap 2 sectio 1
chapter 1 section 2 key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| consumer | an organism that gets energy from feeding off of other organisms |
| herbivore | consumers that only eat plants |
| carnivore | consumers that only eat meat |
| omnivore | consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
| decomposers | organisms that 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 | overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |