Ecosystems Flashcards
1
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Examples of niches
A
Autotroph, herbivore, decomposer, preditor
2
Q
Organism that makes its own food.
A
Autotroph
3
Q
Organisms that don’t produce there own food
A
Heterotroph
4
Q
The first tropic level
A
Producer
5
Q
Define consumer
A
Organisms that ingest living or recently killed organic matter
6
Q
Two types of consumer
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Primary and secondary
7
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Define primary consumer
A
Eats producers. Herbivore.
8
Q
Define secondary consumer
A
Eats other consumers. Carnivore or omnivore.
9
Q
Types of producers
A
Photoautotroph, chemoautotrophy
10
Q
Define decomposer
A
Get energy from non-living things
11
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Types of decomposers
A
Detritivores, sacrotrophs
12
Q
Define detritivore and give 1 example
A
Ingest non living matter. Earthworms
13
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Define sacrotroph and give one example
A
Live in or on non-living matter and secret digestive juice. Fungi
