| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Food Web | series of interconnected food chains |
| Food Chains | show how each living thing gets its food, starts w/ plants ends w/ consumer |
| Base of food chain | plant life |
| photosynthesis | process used by plants to make food |
| Raw materials for photosynthesis | green chlorophyll, CO2 H2O |
| consumers | must eat plants and/or other animals |
| herbavores | animals that eat only plants, primary consumer |
| carnivores | animals that eat other animals, secondary, tertairy consumers |
| omnivores | animals that eat plants and/or other animals |
| primary consumer | herbavor |
| secondary consumer | carnivores that eat herbavores |
| tertairy consumer | carnivores that eat other carnivores |
| decomposers | include bacteria and fungi, breaks down organic matter |
| bacteria | very simple, tiny living cell, lacks a nucleas |
| fungi | multicelled plant without chlorophyll, can not make own food |
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