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16 Cards in this Set
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Producer
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A living thing that can make its own food.
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Consumer
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A living thing that eats other living things for food and energy.
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Herbivore
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A consumer that eats only plants.
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Carnivore
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A consumer that eats only animals.
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Omnivore
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A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
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Decomposer
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A living thing that breaks down waste and dead things.
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Food Chain
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Shows how each member of an ecosystem community gets its food.
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Energy Pyramid
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Diagram that shows how energy moves from one feeding level to the next in a food chain.
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Food Web
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A group of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
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Competition
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Happens when members of an ecosystem depend on the same limited supply of food.
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Predators
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Animals that hunt and feed on other animals.
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Prey
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Animals that are killed for food by a predator.
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Symbiosis
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An interaction where two species live together for a long time and at least one of the species
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Population
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A group of individuals of the same species living in a given area.
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Growth Rate
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The change in size of a population over time.
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Pollutant
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A variable that causes harm to an organism.
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