Types of Animals and their diet
Organism that can make its own food.
What is producer?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation?
A series of of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is food chain?
Organism that obtains energy by feeding on other energy by feeding on other organisms.
What is consumer?
The process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas.
What is evaporation?
Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
Consumers that only eat plants.
What is a herbivore
The process by which a gas changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
They break down biotic wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
Consumers that only eat other animals.
What is a carnivore?
Producers release oxygen as a result of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen cycle?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
What is energy pyramid?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Most producers take in carbon dioxide gas from the air during food-making or photosynthesis.
What is the carbon cycle?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?