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Energy
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Energy | The strength required to complete something. |
| Autotroph | Organisms that can make their own food (they are "self feeders"). |
| Photosynthesis | The process where plants capture the sun's energy in order to convert it into water and carbon dioxide into sugar. |
| Producers | Organisms that can produce their own food (This is another name for autotroph). |
| Biomass | A term used for biological material from living or recently living organisms. |
| Consumers | Also known as heterotrophs, consumers obtain food by eating producers or other consumers. |
| Heterotrophs | Organisms that do not make their on food (example: humans). |
| Herbivores | A type of consumer that only eats producers (example: horses). |
| Primary Consumer | A type of consumer that directly feeds on producers (also known as first-level). consumers). |
| Secondary Consumers | A type of consumer that only eats primary consumers (also known as secondary-level consumers). |
| Carnivores | A type of consumer that only eats other consumers (like lions). |
| Tertiary Consumers | A type of consumer that only eats secondary consumers (also known as third-level consumers). |
| Omnivores | A type of consumer that eats producers and other consumers. |
| Decomposers | Organisms that breaks down wastes (examples: bacteria and fungi). |
| Trophic Level | Represents the feeding levels in the food chain. |
| Cellular Respiration | A chemical process that needs oxygen in order to convert energy, stored in an organic molecule, into another form. |
| Detritus | The waste and remains of dead organisms. |
| Food Webs | Food webs are patterns of feeding conducted by food chains. |
| Food Chain | The transfer of food from one trophic level to the next. |