Energy Flow Vocabulary

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Producer

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an organism that can make its own food (autotroph)

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Consumers

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organisms that obtain energy by eating other organisms

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Herbivores

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Eat plants

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Carnivores

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Eat other animals

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Omnivores

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Eat plants AND animals

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Scavengers

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Carnivores that eat dead animals

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Decomposers

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break down biotic wastes and dead organisms, and return the nutrients to the ecosystem

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Predator

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Kills animal to eat

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Prey

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Animal that gets killed as food

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Primary Consumers

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(1st level consumers) Feed on producers