Food Chain Vocab

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Carnivore

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Consumers that eat only other fish or animals

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Omnivore

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Consumers that eat plants and other consumers

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Herbivore

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Consumers that eat only plants

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Consumer

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Organisms that consume or eat food from a plant or animal

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Producer

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Organisms that create their own food through photosynthesis

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Food Chain

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Links between plants and animals as they eat

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Energy

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Allows work to be done.

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Trophic Pyramid

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A pyramid that shows how the energy is moved from producers to primary consumers, then to secondary consumers, then to tertiary consumers, or apex predators.

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Primary Consumers

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Herbivores that eat only plants that form the second layer of the trophic pyramid.

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Secondary Consumers

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The group of animals on the trophic pyramid that eat both plants and animals.