Ecosystems: Food Chains and Relationships

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Food Chain

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A sequence showing who eats whom in an ecosystem

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Producer

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Organism that makes its own food, like plants

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Consumer

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Organism that eats other organisms for energy

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Herbivore

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Animal that eats only plants

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Carnivore

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Animal that eats only other animals

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Omnivore

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Animal that eats both plants and animals

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Food Web

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A network of interconnected food chains

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Energy Flow

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Movement of energy through a food chain or web

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Symbiosis

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Close relationship between two different species

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Mutualism

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Both species benefit from the relationship