Energy Flow in Ecosystems

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Organisms that make their own food

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Producer

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Organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms

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Consumer

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Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the environment

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Decomposer

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What in this ecosystem needs carbon dioxide?

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just the producers

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Consumers that eat only plants

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Herbivores

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Consumers that eat only animals

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Carnivores

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Consumers that eat both plants and animals

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Omnivores

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Consumers that feed on the bodies of dead organisms

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Scavengers

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What will need oxygen in this ecosystem?

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everything living

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A food _______ is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

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chain