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Carnivore |
A consumer that only eats animals |
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Consumer |
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
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Decomposer |
An organism that breaks down chemicals from wastes and dead organisms, and returns important materials to the soil and water |
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Energy Pyramid |
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
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Food Chain |
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy |
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Food Web |
The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
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Herbivore |
A consumer that eats only plants |
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Omnivore |
A consumer that eats both plants and animals |
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Producer |
An organism that can make its own food |
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Scavenger |
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
