Energy Flow

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What is a consumer?

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An organism that eats other organisms.

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What is a carnivore?

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An animal that eats other animals/meat.

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What is an omnivore?

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An animal that eats both plants and animals.

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What is a predator?

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An animal that kills and eats other animals.

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What are abiotic factors?

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Non-living and physical parts of an ecosystem, like rocks, water, and sunlight.

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What is an autotroph?

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An organism that produces its own food, typically through photosynthesis.

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What is a food web?

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

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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 herbivore?

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An animal that primarily eats plants.

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What is a trophic level?

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The position an organism occupies in a food chain, which is determined by its feeding relationships.