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Chapter 22 sect. 1
science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An organism that can make its own food. | producer |
| An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. | consumer |
| Consumers that only eat plants. | herbivore |
| Consumers that only eat animals. | carnivore |
| Consumers that eat both plants and animals. | omnivore |
| A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. | scavenger |
| Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem. | decomposer |
| A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. | food chain |
| Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. | food web |
| A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. | energy pyramid |