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Unit three
Bio unit three vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Producer | Makes its own food |
| Consumer | an organism that feeds on another plant or animal. Example: herbivore or carnivore |
| Decomposer | an organism that can break down a dead plant or animal. Example: bacteria or fungus |
| Trophic Level | The levels of the different consumers. |
| Food Chain | A chain of the food (plant or meat) that an ultimate consumer might eat. If it eats animals, the stuff those animals eat will also appear. |
| Herbivore | Eats plants |
| Carnivore | Eats meat |
| Omnivore | Eats both plants and meat |
| Primary Consumer | An herbivore |
| Secondary Consumer | Carnivore |
| Tertiary Consumer | A carnivore that's at the top of a biomass or energy pyramid. |
| Food web | A collage of food chains |
| Autotroph | makes its own food/energy |
| Heterotroph | Relies on other resources to make food/energy |
| Photosynthesis | The process/equation of how plants make their own food/energy |
| cellular respiration | How animals get food/energy. |
| ATP | how organisms store energy |
| ADP | how organisms release energy |