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12 Cards in this Set
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Food Chain |
A series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy. |
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Food Web |
The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
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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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Producer |
An organism that can make its own food to obtain energy. |
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Consumer |
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
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Autotroph |
An organism that makes its own food. |
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Decomposers |
An organism that breaks down chemicals from wastes and dead organisms, and returns important materials to the soil and water. |
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Herbivore |
A consumer that eats only plants. |
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Carnivore |
A consumer that eats only animals |
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Omnivore |
A consumer that eats plants and animals. |
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Scavenger |
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. |
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Heterotroph |
An organism that cannot make its own food. |
