CHAPTER 2 lesson 2 Biology Flashcards
1
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Organisms that collects energy from the sun or inorganic substances to produce its own food
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Autotroph
2
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Organism that cannot make its own food and gets its nutrients and energy requirements by feeding on other organisms
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Heterotroph
3
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Heterotroph that only eats plants
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Herbivore
4
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Heterotroph that prays on other heterotrophs
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Carnivore
5
Q
Eat plants and animals
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Omnivore
6
Q
Heterotroph that decomposes organic material and returns the nutrients to soil air and water, making the nutrients available to other organisms
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Detritivore
7
Q
Each step in a food chain or food web
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Trophic level
8
Q
A simplified model that shows a single path of energy flow through an ecosystem
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Food chain
9
Q
The total mass of living matter at each trophic level
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Biomass
