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Ecol-1
Energy Flow
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| producer | organism that makes its own energy (food) from non-living sources |
| consumer | organism that must get its energy by eating parts of other organisms |
| decomposer | organism that gets its energy from dead and decaying matter |
| food chain | a simple diagram showing how energy moves from one organism to another |
| food web | a complex diagram showing all the feeding relationships in a community |
| community | all of the different species in an area (all the living things) |
| population | all the members of one species in a particular area |
| ecosystem | all of the living and non-living parts of the environment |
| trophic level | "feeding level" describing the role that an organism plays in the food web |
| biome | a major type of ecosystem, general defined by the climate and soil type |
| biotic | living or coming from living things |
| abiotic | non-living (never alive) |