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Flashcards: Food Chain

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produceran organism that makes its own food. Ex. a plant
consumerAn organisms in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs to live
herbivoreAn organism that gets its energy by eating plants. Ex a cow
carnivoreAn organism that gets its energy by eating other animals (meat). Ex a lion
omnivoreAn organism that gets its energy by eating both animals (meat) and plants. Ex a bear
decomposerAn organism that breaks down dead organism and absorbs its nutrients. Ex: mushrooms
scavengerAn organism that eats dead animals
parasiteAn organism that lives in or on a living animal feeding off it. Ex: flea
predatoran animal that hunts, catches, and eats another animal. Ex: An owl
preyAn animal that is hunted, aught, and eaten by another animal. Ex: a mouse
competitionContest among organisms for the limited resources of an ecosystem
food chainThe path of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem
food weboverlapping food chains with different pathways for the food energy to flow in an ecosystem