food Webs, food chains

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What is a producer?

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An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food.

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What is a decomposer?

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An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste.

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Where do all life forms get their energy?

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The Sun.

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What is a herbivore?

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An organism that primarily eats plants.

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What makes up an ecosystem?

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A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment.

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What is a food chain?

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A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.

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What role do plants play in a food web?

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Plants are producers that convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis.

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What is an autotroph?

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An organism that can produce its own food from inorganic substances.