Ecosystem Vocab

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Producer

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an organism that uses the sun to make food

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Consumer

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Organisms that cannot make their own food.

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Primary Consumer

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first order - consumer that eat produces to get food

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Secondary Consumer

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consumers that eat other consumers for food

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Tertiary Consumer

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third order - consumers that eat other consumers that already ate another consumer

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Omnivore

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eats plants and animals

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Herbivore

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eats only plants

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Carnivore

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eats only animals

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Scavenger

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eats dead plants and animals

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Decomposer

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breaks down organic matter and returns nutrients to the environment