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| plants because they make their food through photosynthesis |
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| herbivores, carnivores, omnivores |
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| eat only plants ex. rabbits |
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| eat only animals ex. lions |
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| eat both plants and animals ex. people |
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| eat decaying or dead matter and break it down to be useful nutrients and minerals.ex. worms, fungi, bacteria |
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| the total organic matter in an ecosystem -includes all living or recently living organisms |
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| dead trees, branches, wood chips, dead plants or animals |
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| a useful diagram for displaying the feeding relationships among all the organisms in an ecosystem |
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| can show the transfer of energy from one organism to another |
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| shows the feeding relationship that organisms interact with one another in an ecosystem by eating each other. |
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| producers are at the _____ of the food web |
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| eat only primary consumers (carnivores or omnivores) |
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| everything that is not eaten by the consumers is eventually eaten by the ______. |
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| organisms in an ecosystem have specific _________. |
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| competitive relationships involve a winner and a _____. |
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| parasite/host relationship |
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| parasite feeds off the host ex. tick and deer |
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| both organisms gain something positive. ex. bee and flower; ox bird and antelopes |
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