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Ecosystems

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    Ecosystems
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  • What is a producer?
    An organism that can make its own food by the process of photosynthesis.
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  • What is a consumer?
    An organism that obtains energy by feeding on another organism.
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  • What is a decomposer?
    An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms and returns the raw materials back to the environment.
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  • What is a scavenger?
    A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead animals.
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  • A consumer that feeds on plants only....
    herbivore
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  • A consumer that feeds on animals only....
    carnivore
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  • A consumer that feeds on plants and animals....
    omnivore
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  • Describes a series of events in which one organism eats another organism in order to obtain energy?
    foood chain
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  • All the energy within an ecosystem originates from the......
    SUN
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  • In the food chain below, which organism would be a primary consumer?
    rabbit
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  • In the food chain below, which organism would be a secondary consumer?
    frog
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  • Describes many overlapping food chains....
    food web
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  • List one food chain from the diagram below.
    answers vary
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  • 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
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  • Where is the most energy found in an energy pyramid?
    producers
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  • If birds eat insects that feed on corn, which pyramid level would birds occupy?
    C
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