Economic Vocabulary Flashcards

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Energy Pyramid

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An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community. The different levels represent different groups of organisms that might compose a food chain. From the bottom-up, they are as follows Producers bring energy from nonliving sources into the community

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Food Web

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A System of enter locking and independent

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Decomposer

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a device or installation that is used to break down a chemical substance

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Food chain

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the series of processes by which food is grown or produced, sold, and eventually consumed.
“they have taken all reasonable steps to ensure that no contaminated products enter the food chain

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Coniferous

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The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single class, Pinopsida. They are gymnosperms, cone-bearing seed plants

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Consumer

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a person or thing that eats or uses something

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