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Bio vocabulary
Trophic reading
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producers | An organism that makes its own food |
| Consumers | An organism that obtains food by eating producers or other consumers |
| Decomposers | An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms |
| Trophic level | The feeding levels in an ecosystem |
| Food chain | The pathway of food transfer from one trophic level to another |
| Herbivore | An organism that only eats producers |
| Carnivore | An organism that only eats consumers |
| Omnivore | An organism that eats both producers and consumers |
| Primary consumer | Consumer that feeds directly on producers |
| Secondary consumer | Consumer that eats primary consumers |
| Tertiary consumer | Consumer that eats secondary consumers |
| detritus | Wastes and remains of dead organisms |
| Food web | Pattern of feeding in an ecosystem consisting of interconnected and branching food chains |
| Autotroph | Organism that makes its own food |
| Photosynthesis | The process by which plants use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars |
| Heterotroph | Organism that obtains food by eating other organisms |
| Cellular respiration | Chemical process that uses oxygen to convert chemical energy stored in organic molecules into ATP |