Chapter 19- Food Chains Flashcards
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Food Chain
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The flow of energy from one organism to the next, beginning with a producer.
2
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Ingestion
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The consumption of a substance by an organism.
3
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Trophic level
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The position of an organism in a food chain, food web, pyramid of numbers or pyramid of biomass.
4
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Food Web
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A network of interconnected food chains.
5
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Producer
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Organism that makes its own organic nutrients, usually using energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis.
