Lesson 2 Flashcards

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What is a producer?

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An organism that can make it’s own food.

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What is a consumer?

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A consumer is an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

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What is an herbivore?

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A consumer that only eats plants.

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What are carnivores?

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Consumers that eat only animals.

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What are omnivores?

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Consumers that eat both plants and animals to obtain energy.

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What is a scavenger?

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A scavenger is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.

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What are decomposers?

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They break down biotic wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem.

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What is a food chain?

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A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

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What is a food web?

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A food web consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

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What is an energy pyramid?

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A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

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