Ecosystem Unit Test

Producers

• Consumers that eat only animals
• Consumers that seek out and eat dead organisms
• Organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis
• An organism that eats producers; they are called herbivores

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Consumers

• An organism that obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on other organisms or the remains of dead organisms
• Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
• Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
• An organism that eats primary consumers; can be omnivores or low level carnivores

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Herbivores

• An organism that eats producers; they are called herbivores
• An organism that eats primary consumers; can be omnivores or low level carnivores
• A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
• consumers that obtains energy by eating only plants

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Carnivores

• Consumers that eat only animals
• A carnivore that eats secondary consumers
• another name for a producer which makes its own food
• An organism that eats primary consumers; can be omnivores or low level carnivores

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Omnivores

• Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
• Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
• Organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis
• A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

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Decomposers

• another name for a producer which makes its own food
• consumers that obtains energy by eating only plants
• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms

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Scavengers

• An organism that eats primary consumers; can be omnivores or low level carnivores
• Consumers that seek out and eat dead organisms
• An organism that eats producers; they are called herbivores
• Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms

food chain

• A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
• An organism that eats producers; they are called herbivores
• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• another name for a producer which makes its own food

food web

• An organism that eats producers; they are called herbivores
• Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
• Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
• A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

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energy pyramid

• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• Consumers that seek out and eat dead organisms
• Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
• Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

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