Ecology Vocabulary

a living thing that makes its own food

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• herbivore

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a living thing that must eat other living things

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• carnivore

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an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• onmivore

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the path of food energy from one living thing to another

• food chain
• food web
• organism
• energy

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a connection of food chains that shows many food energy paths

• food web
• energy web
• energy chain
• ecosystem

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what is needed to do work

• energy
• organism
• prey
• food chain

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a consumer that eats only plants

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore
• predator

a consumer that eats only other animals (meat)

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore
• decomposer

a consumer that eats both plants and other animals

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore
• producer

an animal that hunts and eats other animals

• predator
• prey
• herbivore
• producer

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