Food Webs and Chains Vocab

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abiotic

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nonliving

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biotic

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living

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autotroph

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an organism that makes its own food

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carnivore

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an organism that eats other animals

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consumer

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an organism that eats other organisms

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decomposer

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an organism that consumes parts of dead organisms and converts all the biomass into simple chemicals

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first-level consumer

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organisms that eat producers - also called primary consumers

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food chain

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a sequence of organisms that eat one another in an ecosystem

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food web

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all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem

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herbivore

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an organism that eats only plants