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19 Cards in this Set
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Energy Flow
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The flow of energy through an ecosystem
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Producer/Autotroph
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An organism that makes its own food
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Consumer/Heterotroph
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An organism which obtains its energy by consumption of other organisms
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Herbivore
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Plant eater
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Ominvore
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Meat and plant eater
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Carnivore
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Meat eater
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Primary Consumer
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Herbivore/plant eater
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Secondary Consumer
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Second consumer in a food chain/food web
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Tertiary Consumer
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Third consumer in a good chain/food web
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Decomposer
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Organism which obtains its energy from dead or decaying organisms, thus returning nutrients into the soil
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Predator
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An organism that feeds on what it hunts and kills
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Prey
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A species that is hunted and killed for food
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Scavenger
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A species that feeds off of dead organisms that they did not hunt or kill themselves
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Food Chain
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A pathway in which energy flows through an ecosystem
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Food Web
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All possible pathways in which energy flows through an ecosystem
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Energy Pyramid
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Graphical representation to show the relationship between energy and trophic levels of a given ecosystem
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Trophic Level
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The position that an organism occupies in a food chain; what it eats and what eats it
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Photosynthesis
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Conversion of sun's energy to chemical (food/glucose) energy
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Cellular Respiration
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Process by which chemical bonds (food/glucose energy) are converted to usable energy (ATP)
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