Ecology Vocabulary 1

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Food Chain

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The sequence of who eats whom in a biological community

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Food Web

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The network of all the inter-related food chains in a biological community

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Carnivore

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An organism that eats meat

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Herbivore

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An organism that eats plants

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autotroph

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An organism that makes its food from light or chemical energy without eating

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Heterotroph

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An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms

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Primary Consumer

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A meat-eater that eats autotrophs

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Secondary Consumer

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A meat-eater that eats primary consumers

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Tertiary Consumer

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A meat-eater that eats secondary consumers

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Quaternary Consumer

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A meat-eater that eats secondary consumers