Ecosystem Vocabulary #2

organisms that make their own food for energy

• producer

• consumer

• decomposers

• herbivores

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animals that get energy by eating other living things

• producers

• decomposer

• consumers

• carnivore

a consumer that breaks down wastes and dead plants; such as fungi

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• carnivore

a consumer that eats mainly plants

• consumer

• producer

• omnivore

• herbivores

a consumer that eats both plants and animals

• predator

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

a consumer that eats mainly other animals

• carnivore

• omnivore

• producers

• consumers

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an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food

• carnivore

• omnivore

• predator

• prey

animal that is hunted and killed as food for other animals

• predator

• prey

• consumer

• parasite

a series of plants and animals in which each organism is a source of food (energy) for the next in the series

• parasite

• food chain

• food web

• host

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Interconnected food chains

• food chain

• food web

• predator

• prey

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