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18 section 2
unit 2 ecology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| herbivore | an organism that eats only plants |
| carnivore | an organism that eats only meat |
| omnivore | an organiam that eats both plants and animals |
| producer | organism that uses direct sunlight to make food |
| photosynthesis | process that uses sunlight to make food |
| consumers | organism that eats another organism |
| decomposer | organisms that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms |
| scavenger | are omnivores that eat dead plants and amimals |
| food chain | feeding patterns |
| food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between oganisms in an ecosystem |
| energy pyramid | a diagram that shows loss of energy |
| detritivores | decomposers that return nutrients back into the soil for use by producers |
| prducers are.... | autotrophic |
| consumers are.... | heterotrophic |
| decomposers are.. | heterotrophic |
| food chains | to show how matter and energy move through an ecosystem |
| levels of a foodchain | 1 sun 2 producer 3 consumer (1,2,3 level)and 4 decomposers |
| chemicals.. | nitrogen carbon and the compound water cycle through the enviornment |
| matter is | recycled not energy |
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