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Energy in ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| producer | an organism that makes its own food. |
| consumer | organism that eats other organisms to get energy. |
| trophic level | each step in a food chain or food web |
| chemical equation | a summary of the ingredients and products in a chemical process. |
| carbohydrate | substance in foods that provide energy, the building blocks of plants, simplest carbohydrate is called glucose. |
| glucose | type of sugar, gives us energy, simplest carbohydrate. |
| herbivores | animals that only eat plants. |
| omnivores | animal that eats both plants and meat. |
| carnivores | animals that eat only meat. |
| cellular respiration | process of making energy from food, occurs in cells. |