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22 Cards in this Set
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Producer |
Organisms that use sunlight to make food through the process of photosynthesis |
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Producer is also called |
Autotroph |
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Consumer |
Organisms that eat to get energy |
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Consumer also called |
Heterotroph |
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Decomposer |
Organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms and return the nutrients to the soil |
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Herbivores |
Plant eaters |
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Carnivores |
Meat eaters |
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Omnivores |
Eat both plants & meat |
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Food chain |
Shows how energy flows from one organism to another |
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Food web |
Are made up of multiple food chains |
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How does energy flows through a food web? |
Energy moves from one organism to the next |
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How does the removal of some spicies affect the entire food web? |
They depend on one another. If one organism is removed, something else will lose that food source. |
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What is this called? |
Primary consumer |
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What is this called? |
Primary & secondary consumer |
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What is this called? |
Secondary consumer |
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What is this called? |
Producer |
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What is this called? |
Tertiary consumer |
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Scavenger |
A organism that eats dead or decaying matter |
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Photosynthesis |
Process that combines air, water and light in a special process that makes their food |
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Homeostasis |
The maintainance of a stable internal environment |
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Stimulus |
Anything that causes an organism to change or react |
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100%, 10%, 1%, 0.1% |
Energy at each level |