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17 Cards in this Set
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Herbivore |
An animal that feeds on plants |
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Carnivore |
An animal that feeds on flesh |
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Detritivore |
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Producer |
An autotrophic organism that serves as a source of food for other organisms in food chain. (green plants) |
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Autotroph |
an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
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Primary Consumer |
Any organism that eat primary producers |
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Photosynthesis |
the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.
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Food Web |
a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
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Respiration |
The conversion of oxygen by living things into the energy by which they continue life.
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Consumer |
Organisms that cannot make their own energy. |
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Omnivore |
an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
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Trophic Levels |
Position an organism occupies in a food chain |
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Decomposers |
organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms
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Heterotroph |
an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
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Secondary Consumer |
A carnivore that feeds only upon herbivores |
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Tertiary Consumer |
A carnivore at the topmost level of the food chain that feeds on other carnivores. |
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Food Chain |
a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
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