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food web                                                owl pellet
           a diagram made                                          a regurgitated oval-shaped
           up of many                                              mass made up of the         pellet
           different food                                          indigestible body
           chains in an                                            parts of the   skull  fur    feather
           ecosystem                                               prey an owl                       jaw
                                                                   has eaten


                                                                                     bones     teeth




           herbivore                                               photosynthesis      oxygen
           a consumer                                              a process powered
           that only                                               by sunlight that                          carbon
           eats plants                                             uses carbon                      glucose  dioxide
                                                                   dioxide and water       water
                                                                   to produce oxygen
                                                                   and glucose
                                                                               6 CO 2  +  6 H 2O              light energy           C 6H 12O 6  +  6 O 2
                                                                               carbon   water           glucose  oxygen
                                                                               dioxide       chlorophyll



           heterotroph                                             producer

           an organism that                                        an organism that makes its own food by using
           cannot make its                                         energy from the Sun for photosynthesis
           own food and eats
                                                                                       sun’s energy
                                                                         6 CO 2  +  6 H 2O                              C 6H 12O 6  +  6 O 2
           other living things                                           carbon   water  chlorophyll  food  oxygen
                                                                         dioxide
           to gain energy









           omnivore                                                trophic level
           a consumer that                                         position of an organism on a food chain that
           eats both plants                                        indicates how many steps it is from the start
           and animals                                             of the chain
                                                                          level 1     level 2    level 3   level 4
                                                                                                  level
                                                                                       level
                                                                                                             level
                                                                             level
                                                                              1         2          3          4





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