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9 Cards in this Set
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Producers
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At the bottom of the food chain, plants and certain bacteria convert photons to body matter through photosynthesis.
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Primary Consumers (Herbivores)
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The producers become food for the next level which includes insects and various vertebrates.
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Secondary Consumers (Carnivores)
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The primary consumers in turn are consumed by a range of vertebrates.
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Decomposers
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The cycle is completed by a diversity of decomposers mostly insects, bacteria, and other tiny dwellers of the soil - that convert wastes into chemicals for the next generation of producers.
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The Web of Life
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All members of an ecological community are interconnected in vast and intricate network of relationships, the web of life, sustained by the cycling of energy and nutrients.
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Feedback Loops
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Ecological communities regulate and organize themselves, maintaining a state of dynamic balance characterized by ongoing fluctuations. The ecosystem adapts, persists, and occasionally undergoes major reorganization.
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Anapsid
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No opening in skull
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Synapsid
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Fused openings
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Diapsid
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Two openings
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