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16 Cards in this Set
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Herbivore |
Is an animal that only eats plants |
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Carnivore |
Is an animal that only eats meat |
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Detritivore |
They eat the world garbage, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus |
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Producers |
Plants |
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Consumers |
An organism that eats or uses something. |
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Omnivore |
An organism that eats both plants and meat |
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Autotroph |
An organism that provides itś own food (key word) AUTO |
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Trophic levels |
Levels in an ecosystem, comprising organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy. |
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Primary Consumer |
These are organisms like plants and algae that make their own energy by using the sun |
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Photosynthesis
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The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water |
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Food Web |
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains. |
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Cellular Respiration |
Connverting biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and then release waste products. |
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Heterotroph |
an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances. |
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Secondary Consumer |
Theyŕe the middle of the food chain they eat but are also eaten themselfs |
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Tertiary Consumer |
There at the top of the food chain they eat but aren´t eaten |
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Food Chain |
Organisms that each dependent on the next as a source of food. |
