Food Chains And Food Webs Flashcards

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The sun

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The sun is the start of every food chain and food web

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Producer

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A producer can only be a plant and absorbs sunlight then other animals eat those plants and so on. A producer is usually at the bottom of a food pyramid, because there is the most of them

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Consumer

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A consumer is an animal that either eats another animal or a producer. They are always animals

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Decomposer

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When you reach the end of the food chain, food web or food pyramid the decomposers come in. Decomposers break apart the bodies pf the dead animals and return the nutrients back to the soil.

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Energy Pyramid

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An energy pyramid shows the transfer of energy through an ecosystem. This usually does not include decomposers or scavengers.

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Carnivore

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Any animal that eats producers and consumers but mostly animals or consumers

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Herbivore

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An animal that only eats plants

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Omnivore

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A consumer that eats plants and animals both at regular intervals

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Scavenger

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An animal that picks off of the remains of an animal that a consumer has already eaten, and the decomposers have not gotten to the dead animal yet

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Predator

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An animal

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