consumers and producers in food webs

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food chain

the sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem

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food web

the network of all the inter-related food chains in an ecosystem

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autotroph

an organism that makes its food by photosynthesis

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heterotroph

an organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms

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carnivore

an organism that eats meat or other animals

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herbivore

an organism that only eats plants or producers

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primary consumer

a meat-eater (consumer) that eats autotrophs (producers)

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secondary consumer

a meat-eater that eats primary consumers

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tertiary consumer(3rd level)

a meat-eater that eats secondary consumers

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quaternary consumer(4th level)

a meat-eater that eats tertiary consumers

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