Energy Flow in Ecosystem Vocabulary Flashcards
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Producer/Autotroph
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An organism that can make its own food.
2
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Consumer/Heterotroph
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Organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms.
3
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Herbivore
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An organism that eats only plants.
4
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Carnivore
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An organism that only eats animals.
5
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Omnivore
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An organism that eats both plants and animals.
6
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Scavenger
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A carnivor that feeds on dead organims.
7
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Decomposer
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Organisms that break down waste and return them to an enviornment.
8
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Food Chain
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A series of events (chains) in which one organism eats another.
9
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Food Web
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Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
10
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Energy Pyramid
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a diagram that shows the movement of energy in a food web.
11
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Photosynthesis
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The process in which organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce food.
