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unit 2
biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| prodcer | organisms that can produce there own food |
| photosynthesis | using the sun to make food |
| consumers | organisms that eat other organisms |
| herbivore | a consumer that only eats plants/first level |
| carnvore | an organism that only eats meat |
| omnivores | organisms that eat both plants and other organisms |
| decomposer | organisms that get their energy by breaking down dead animals |
| scavengers | omnivores that eat both dead plants and animals |
| detrovore | decomposers that return nutrients back into the soil for producer use |
| heterotrophic | depends on other animals to get food |
| troph | feeder |
| hetro | other |
| food chain | a diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to the next |
| food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms more acurate than food chain |
| 2 types of food web | land and aquatic |
| energy pyramid | a pyramid that shows an ecosystems loss of energy. has large base small top gets smaller because only energy stored in tissue of an organism can be transferred to the next level |
| levels of an energy pyramid | producers-1st level consumer-2nd level consumer-Tertiary consumer |
| what nutrients cycle through the enviorment | chemicals such as nitrogen,carbon,water |