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| producer | an organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis |
| consumer | a living thing that obtains its energy by eating other living things |
| herbivore | a consumer that eats only producers |
| carnivore | a consumer that eats only other animals |
| omnivore | a consumer that eats both plants and animals |
| predator | an animal that hunts other animals for food |
| prey | an animal hunted for food by another animal |
| food web | the overlapping food chains that link producers,consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem |
| food chain | the path that energy takes through a community as 1 living thing eats another |
| ecosystem | an area in which living and nonliving things interact |
| biome | a major land ecosystem having a distinct combination of plants and animals |
| decomposer | a living thing that breaks down and feeds on the remains of dead things |
| competition | the struggle amoung organisms for available resources |
