Food Chains and Food Webs Flashcards

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Autotrophs

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Producers; organisms that can produce their own organic compounds from inorganic compounds; they use energy from the Sun or from oxidation of inorganic substances

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Heterotrophs

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An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition

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