12.2 Flashcards

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Producers are the source of what

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All the food and the ecosystem

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What is an organisms energy role determine by

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How it obtains food and how it interacts with other organisms

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Producers make their own food by

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Capturing the energy of sunlight

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How do consumers obtain energy

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By feeding on other organisms

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Herbivores eat

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Plants

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Carnivores eat

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Only animals

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Omnivores eat

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Plants and animals

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Scavenger eats

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Carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms

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Decomposers breakdown

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Waste and dead organisms and return the new materials to the ecosystem

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Energy moves through an ecosystem when

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One organism eats another

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What is a food chain

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Series of events to which one organism eats another and obtains energy

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Food web

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Consist of many overlapping foodchains in an ecosystem more realistic than food chain

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12
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First level consumers feed

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Directly on producers

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Second level consumers eat

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First level consumers

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