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12 Cards in this Set
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producer
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An organism that can make its own food.
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consumer
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An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
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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 plants and animals.
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scavenger
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A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
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decomposer
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An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
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food chain
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A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
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food web
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The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
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energy pyramid
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A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
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What organism always begins a food chain?
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A producer. An example is a green plant which gets its energy from the sun.
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How is a scavenger different from a decomposer?
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Scavengers FEED on dead matter while decomposers break down dead matter into simpler substances like soil.
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