The document defines key terms used to describe organisms' roles in food webs, including producers that make their own food, consumers that eat other organisms, herbivores that only eat producers, carnivores that only eat animals, omnivores that eat both producers and animals, detritus as decaying remains, and decomposers and detritivores that break down detritus.

1. Terms to Know
Decomposer
Carnivore
Herbivore
Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore

2. Producer / Autotroph
Decomposer
Organism that Carnivore
creates its own Herbivore
food. Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore

3. Consumer / Heterotroph
Feeds on other Decomposer
organisms. Carnivore
Herbivore
Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore

4. Herbivore
Eats only Decomposer
producers. Carnivore
Herbivore
Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore

5. Carnivore
Eats only animals. Decomposer
Carnivore
Herbivore
Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore

6. Omnivore
Decomposer
Eats both Carnivore
producers and Herbivore
animals. Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore

7. Detritus
Decomposer
The waste and Carnivore
decaying remains of Herbivore
dead organisms. Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore

8. Decomposer / Detritivore
Breaks-down and Decomposer
eats detritus. Carnivore
Herbivore
Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore

9. Scavenger
Eats the dead Decomposer
remains of other Carnivore
organisms. Herbivore
Heterotroph
Scavenger
Omnivore
Consumer
Autotroph
Producer
Detritus
Detritivore