energy level Flashcards
1
Q
an organism that can make its own food
A
producers/autotroph
2
Q
organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organism
A
consumer/ heterotroph
3
Q
an organism that eats only plants
A
herbivore
4
Q
an organism that eats only animals
A
carnivore
5
Q
an organism that eats both plants and animals
A
omnivore
6
Q
a carnivore that feeds on dead organism
A
scavenger
7
Q
organism that break down wastes and wastes and return them to the environment
A
decomposer
8
Q
a series of events in which one organism eats another
A
food chain
9
Q
many overlapping food chains in a ecosystem
A
food web
10
Q
a diagram that shows the movement of energy in a food web
A
energy pyramid
11
Q
the process in which organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce food
A
photosynthesis
