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  1. producer
    An organism that can make its own food.
  2. consumer
    An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
  3. herbivore
    A consumer that eats only plants.
  4. carnivore
    A consumer that eats only animals.
  5. omnivore
    a consumer that eats both plants and animals.
  6. scavenger
    A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
  7. decomposer
    An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
  8. food chain
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    A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
  9. food web
    The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
  10. energy pyramid
    A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
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