food chains
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 producers | an organism that can make its own food |
| consumers | an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms |
| herbivores | consumers that eat only plants |
| carnivores | consumers that eat only animals |
| omnivores | consumers that eat both plants and animals |
| decomposers | an organism that gets its energy by eating wastes and dead organisms (examples are mushrooms and bacteria) raw material is returned to the ecosystem |
| food chain | shows a series of organisms that eat other organisms |
| who is the first organism in a food chain | producer |
| the organism that eats the producer is ? | first level consumer |
| the organism that eats the first level consumer is? | second level consumer |
| food web | made up of many food chains in an ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | shows how many energy moves from one feeding level to another |
| which level of an energy pyramid has the most energy? | the first level |
| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
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