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Organisms
Food Chain/Food Web
Term | Definition |
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Food Chain | the path of food energy from the Sun, to the producer, then transferred to a series of consumers |
Food Web | the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem |
inter | within/inside |
interconnected | connected within the food web |
trophic | the position an organism occupies on the food web |
omnivore | an organism that consumes both animals and plants |
herbivore | an organism that consumes only plants |
consumer | an organism that eats |
Energy Food Webs | a diagram that shows the trophic levels of organisms in a food web |