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bio vocab 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Energy | ability to do work |
| Tertiary Consumer | animals that feed on the secondary consumers |
| Secondary Consumer | organisms that eat the consumers that eat the producers |
| Carnivores | meat eaters |
| Omnivores | meat and plant eaters |
| Decomposers | eat the remains of dead organisms |
| Photosynthesis | process when plants turn light energy into chemical energy |
| Herbivores | plant eaters |
| Biomass | living matter |
| Food Chain | Chain of organisms that depend on one another |
| Detritus | remains and wastes of dead organisms |
| Autotroph | forms nutrition from inorganic subsatances |
| Heterotroph | an organism that creates it's own food through photosynthesis |
| Consumer | a person who uses goods |
| Primary Consmuer | a herbivore |
| Producer | something that makes it's own nutrition |
| Food Webs | interrelated food chains |
| Cellular Respiration | when certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules |
| Trophic Levels | a group of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain |
| Primary Productivity | rate at which producers in an ecosystem build biomass |
| Energy Pyramid | diagram representing the biomass in each trophic level of an ecosystem |
| Biomass Pyramid | diagram representing the biomass in each trophic level of an ecosystem |
| Pyramid of Numbers | representation of the number of individual organisms in each trophic level of an ecosystem |
| 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 | potential to perform work due to the arrangement of atoms within molecules |
| Calorie | amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 g of water 1°C |
| ATP | main energy supply for animal and plant cells |
| Chloroplast | organelle found in some plant cells and certain unicellular organisms where photosynthesis takes place |
| Light Reactions | chemical reactions that convert the sun's energy to chemical energy |
| Chlorophyll | pigment that gives a chloroplast its green color |
| Stroma | thick fluid contained in the inner membrane of a chloroplast |
| Thylakoid | disk-shaped sac in the stroma of a chloroplast |
| Calvin Cycle | cycle in plants that makes sugar from carbon dioxide |
| Equation for Photosynthesis | |
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