Topic 3 Lesson 2 Vocabulary

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producer

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an organism that can make its own nutrients, usually with energy from the sun

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microbe

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an organism that is too small to see

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decomposer

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an organism that breaks down the bodies of dead organisms

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consumer

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an organism that needs to eat other organisms to survive

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food chain

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a model that shows how matter and energy flow from one organism to another

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food web

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a model of the transfer of the energy within a set of interconnected food chains

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transfer

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to move from one object to another