Food chain and related vocabulary
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| consumer | Organisms that eat other organisms for energy . there are three types - carnivore, herbivore and omnivore
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| decomposer | Organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms. Bacteria and fungi are examples. “Decomposer-dead-decay”
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| carnivore | A consumer that eats only animals(eats meat-carne)
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| omnivore | A consumer that eats a combination of plants and animals
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| herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants (eats plants-“herb”)
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| scavenger | A specialized carnivore that only eats food that is already dead and that they have not killed themselves (carrion)
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| carrion | The meat from animals that have died
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| food chain | Shows the flow of energy (food) and the feeding relationships between each organism
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| food web | A pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
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| Primary consumer | A first level consumer that eats the producer. (also known as an herbivore because of that)
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| Secondary consumer | Consumes food from the primary consumer meaning it is a carnivore.
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| energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food chain/web; the most energy is available at the producer (1st) level, and the least energy is available at the top-most consumer
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| trophic level | Trophic levels are the levels within the food chain where an organism obtains its energy. Usually shown on an energy pyramid.
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| autotroph | organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis - i.e.-plants!
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| heterotroph | organisms that rely on other organisms to obtain energy through eating them.
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