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| energy flow | the energy flows from one living thing to another in several steps these steps are based on what a living thing eats and where it gets its food . Each living thing fills a niche in this flow of energy .ats |
| energy from the sun | the sun provides materials with what they need , these materials are , energy from the sunlight , nutrients from the air , water , and soil . |
| produer | a living containing chloriphill and capable of using sunlight to make its own food from materials taken from the soil and air . |
| consumer | a living thing that eats other living things |
| herbivore | an animal that eats only plants or plant materials |
| carnivore | an animal that eats only other animals |
| recieving energy | animals and small living things recieve their energy by eating the stored food in plants or by eating other organisms |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and other animals . |
| decomposer | a living thing that feeds on dead materials , breaking them down and returning the materials to the environment .aeking them down |
| food chain | the arrangement of living things in an order in which uses the next as asource of food . |
| food web | a combination of all the food chains in an ecosystem . |
| food pyramid | a factor that controls the number of |
