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Carnivore | An animal that eats only other animals |
Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
Decomposer | An organism that breaks down large chemicals from dead organisms into small chemicals and returns important materials to the soil and water |
Energy Pyramid | A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
Food Chain | A series of events in which one organism eats another |
Food Web | The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
Herbivore | An animal that eats only plants |
Omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and animals |
Producer | An organism that can make its own food |
Scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |