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| Consumer | an organism that eats other organisms (plants and / or animals) for food |
| Decomposer | an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste |
| Dependent | to rely on someone or something else |
| Ecosystem | he living and nonliving components of an area |
| Food chain | a representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem |
| Food web | a representation of several overlapping food chains in an ecosystem; includes the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers through multiple pathways |
| Habitat | the place where an organism lives; habitats supply the organism with food, shelter, moisture, and temperature for survival |
| Model | a picture, an idea, or an object that represents an object, a system, or a process and is used to help with understanding; models have advantages and limitations |
| Producer | an organism that makes its own food (e.g., plants) |
