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11 Cards in this Set
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Energy |
.energy for life
.sunlight is the main source of food |
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Producers
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Make own food
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Autotrophs
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.plants, algae
.producers .use photosynthesis to make food .no life without them |
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Chemotrophs
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.autotroph that live in the ocean
.chemicals to food |
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Consumers
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Hunt, gather, and store food from elsewhere
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Heterotrophs
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Consume other organisms
Ex: pigs, lion, mushrooms |
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Three types of heterotrophs
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Herbivore- eat plants
Carnivores- eat meat Omnivore- eat plants and animals |
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Detritivores
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Eat dead matter
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Food chain
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A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten
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Food webs
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Relationship of plant and animals in the environment; a predator from a chain may be linked to pray of another chain
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Niche
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Range of conditions under which an organism thrives
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