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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 b 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 both 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 obtain 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 to another in a food web
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limiting factor
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an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
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carrying capacity
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the largest population that an area can support
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