Vocab. Flashcards
Consumer
Something that gets the thing the producers make.
Decomposer
Organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material
Autotrophs
An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substance from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
Heterotrophs
An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
Photosynthesis
Process by which green plants and other organisms use sunlight to synthesize food from carbon dioxide and water.
Cellular Respiration
Set of reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert energy from nutrients into ATP, and then release waste products.
Fermentation
What happens when there isn’t enough oxygen.
Producer
Something that makes something