Relationships in Ecosystems

What is a decomposer?

• an organism that breaks down the wastes and remains of other living things

• an organism that can produce its own food

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What is a producer?

• an organism that breaks down the wastes and remains of other living things

• an organism that can produce its own food

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What is a consumer?

• an organism that cannot make its own food.

• an organism that can produce its own food

What is an omnivore?

• organisms who eat only producers

• organisms who eat producers and consumers

What is a herbivore?

• an organism that eats only producers

• an organism that eats producers and consumers

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What is a carnivore?

• an organism that eats producers and consumers

• an organism that eats herbivores and omnivores

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What are humans?

• Herbivores

• Omnivores

• Carnivores

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What is a food chain?

• the path energy takes in the form of food

• the amount of energy at each level of a food chain

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What is a food web?

• the food chains that are connected in an ecosystem

• the amount of energy at each level of a food chain

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What is a food pyramid?

• the food chains that are connected in an ecosystem

• the amount of energy at each level of a food chain