Food Chains and Webs Vocab

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Path of energy and nutrients in an ecosystem

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food chain

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Overlapping chains in an ecosystem

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food web

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Organism that eats plants or animals

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consumer

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An organism that makes its own food.

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Producer

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Organism that breaks down dead matter

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decomposer

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Animals eat for energy.

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Food.

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Organism that breaks down organic matter

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fungi

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The space and all living/nonliving things around an organism

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environment

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All interacting members of a species in an area

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population

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To grow strong

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thrive