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Vocab for Notecards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Energy | Energy for humans come from eating healthy foods. Energy for plants(fruits and veggies) come from the sunlight. |
| Autotroph | "self feeders" also known as producers |
| Photosynthesis | When plants use sunlight to produce sugars. |
| Heterotrophs | Also known as consumers. "others eater" |
| Cellular Respiration | Uses oxygen to convert chemical energy stored in organic molecules into another chemical energy. |
| Decomposer | organisms that break down dead organisms or waste. |
| Trophic Level | feeding level in an ecosystem. |
| Food Chain | Pathway of food transfer from one trophic level to the other. |
| Herbivores | Consumers that only eat producers. |
| Carnivores | Consumers that eat other consumers. |
| Omnivores | Consumers that eat both consumers and producers. |
| Primary Consumer | consumer that feeds directly on producers. |
| Secondary Consumer | consumers that eat primary consumers. |
| Tertiary Consumers | consumers that eats secondary consumers. |
| detritus | remains of dead organisms |
| Kinetic Energy | energy of motion |
| Potential Energy | energy stored due to an object's position or arrangement |
| Thermal Energy | total amount of energy associated with the random movement of atoms and molecules in a sample of matter |
| Chemical Energy | work due to the arrangement of atoms within molecules |
| calorie | amount of energy required to raise the temperature |