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How do producers make their own energy?
Uses the sun's energy to make food through a process called photosynthesis
What are some examples of decomposers?
Worms, fungi, bacteria, insects
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food chain is a simple model and a food web is more complicated
What is it called when animals rely on each other to survive?
interdependence
How does a decomposer obtain energy?
by eating dead plants or animals
What is a simple way of explaining a food chain?
primary producers --> consumers --> secondary consumers
What is a food chain?
a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food
What does a decomposer do?
Decomposers transform matter back into inorganic forms that can be recycled within the ecosystem
What are two types of trophic levels?
Autotrophs and heterotrophs
What do arrows show in a food chain/web?
Flow of energy
What is a consumer?
Gets it's energy from eating or consuming another organism
Explain the definition of carnivore, and give 2 examples
an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
what are two types of consumers in a food chain?
omnivores, carnivores, herbivores and decomposers
What are energy roles based on?
the way organisms obtain food and interact
How does energy move in a food chain/web?