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14 Cards in this Set
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Producers |
plants and bacteria making their own food. capturing energy to make organic molecules |
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Chemosynthesis |
when bacteria uses energy stored in inorganic molecules to produce carbohydrates |
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Gross Primary Productivity |
the rate at which producers in a ecosystem capture the energy of sunlight by producing organic compounds |
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Biomass |
organic material that has been produced in an ecosystem |
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Net Primary Productivity |
rate of which the biomass accumulates |
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Consumers |
animals and fungi who cannot produce their own food. They obtain molecules by eating others who do. |
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Herbivores |
eat producers or plants. |
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Carnivores |
Eat other consumers |
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Omnivores |
eat both producers and consumers |
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Detritivores |
consumers that feed on garbage or an ecosystem such as dead animals. |
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Decomposers |
causes decay by breaking down molecules into simpler molecules. |
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Trophic Level |
indicated the organisms position in a sequence of energy transfers |
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Food Chain |
is a single pathway of feeding relationships in an ecosystem that results in energy transfers |
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Food Web |
interrelated food chains in an ecosystem |
