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An organism that can make its own food.

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

A consumer that eats only plants.

A consumer that eats only animals.

a consumer that eats both plants and animals.

A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms

An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.