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What releases energy and helps recycle chemicals
Cell respiration
All living things need what to live, grow, reproduce, and etc
Atp
Who uses captured energy to make carbohydrates
Producers/autotrophs
Producers/autrophs do not make what
Energy
What happens to the energy that is not usef
Syoref in their cells and can be passed on to organisms that they got eaten by
Who eat other organisms for energy and cannot capture energy from non living organisms
Consumers/heterotrophs
Who eat secondary
Teriary
Who eat dead litter
Detrivores
Who releases nutrition
Decomposers
What is it called when transfer of energy from the sun through a single line of organisms
The food chain
Trophic level is
Each step in a food chain or web
A network of connected food chains for an ecosystem is called
The food web
What happens when an organism eats another organism
Amount of energy decreases
What shows amount of energy available at each tropical level in a food chain or web
Ecological pyramid
What energy is transfered when being consumed
Stored energy