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What is an organism that can make its own food, and is the source of food for other organisms?
Producer
What is an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms?
Consumer
What is a carnivore that feeds on dead organisms?
Scavenger
What is an organism that breaks down dead organisms and returns the nutrients back to the soil?
Decomposer
What is a consumer that only eats plants?
Herbivore
What is a consumer that only eats other animals?
Carnivore
What is a consumer that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
What is an organism that hunts and eats other organisms?
Predator
What is an organism that is hunted and eaten?
Prey
What is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy and nutrients?
Food Chain
What consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem?
Food Web
What are organisms that eat producers (herbivores)?
Primary Consumers
What are organisms that eat primary consumers (carnivores, omnivores)?
Secondary Consumers
What are organisms that eat secondary consumers (carnivores, omnivores)?
Tertiary Consumers
What is an organism at the top of a food chain that has no natural predators?
Apex Predators
3 reactants of photosynthesis:
sunlight, water, carbon dioxide
