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  • Describes many overlapping food chains....
    food web
  • Describes a series of events in which one organism eats another organism in order to obtain energy?
    foood chain
  • A consumer that feeds on animals only....
    carnivore
  • What is a consumer?
    An organism that obtains energy by feeding on another organism.
  • Term used to describe all of the different populations that live together in an area?
    community
  • A consumer that feeds on plants only....
    herbivore
  • A non-living part of an ecosystem.....
    Abiotic factor
  • Term used to describe all of the living and nonliving things that interact in an area,,,
    Ecosystem
  • Term that describes a series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
    succession
  • All the energy within an ecosystem originates from the......
    SUN
  • Where is the most energy found in an energy pyramid?
    producers
  • In the food chain below, which organism would be a primary consumer?
    rabbit
  • List one food chain from the diagram below.
    answers vary
  • What process is represented in the diagram below?
    photosynthesis
  • What is a producer?
    An organism that can make its own food by the process of photosynthesis.
  • In the food chain below, which organism would be a secondary consumer?
    frog
  • A consumer that feeds on plants and animals....
    omnivore
  • If birds eat insects that feed on corn, which pyramid level would birds occupy?
    C
  • What is the term used to describe all of the members of one species in a particular area?
    population
  • What type of factor is a living organism of an ecosystem?
    Biotic factor
  • The place an organism lives in that provides the things that it needs to survive....
    Habitat
  • What is a decomposer?
    An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms and returns the raw materials back to the environment.
  • What type of succession occurs more rapidly?
    secondary succession
  • Term used to describe a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
    Energy Pyramid
  • What is a scavenger?
    A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead animals.
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