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36.1
Key Terms
| Question | Defintion |
|---|---|
| Producer | Organism that makes its own food |
| Consumer | Organism that obtains its food from producers or other consumers |
| Decomposer | Breaks down dead organisms and waste |
| Trophic Level | Feeding Level |
| Food Chain | The pathway of food transfer from one trophic level to another |
| Carnivore | A consumer that eats only other consumers |
| Herbivore | A consumer that only eats producers |
| Omnivore | A consumer that eats both producers and consumers |
| Primary Consumer | When a consumer feeds directly on producers. |
| Tertiany Consumer | eat secondary consumers |
| secondary consumer | eat primary consumers |
| Biomass | The amount of living matter in a given habitat |
| Energy | The capacity of vigorous activity power |
| Detritus | Wastes and remains of dead organisms |
| Food web | the pattern of feeding rep. by theses interconnected and branching food chains |
| Cellular Respiration | a chemical process that uses oxygen to convert the chemical energy store in organism into another form of chemical energy |