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Unit 6
Food Chains, Webs, and the carbon dioxide/oxygen cycle
Term | Definition |
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abiotic | non-living; never lived |
biotic | living or once living organisms |
interdependency | When elements within an ecosystem depend on each other to survive |
ecosystem | A community of living and non-living things in their natural environment |
producer | uses the sun's energy to make its own food through photosynthesis |
consumers | eat other organisms for their energy |
decomposers | Consumers that break down dead organisms |
herbivores | Consumers that only eat plants |
carnivores | Consumers that only eat meat |
omnivores | Consumers that eat plants and meat |
Worms, bacteria, fungi, mushrooms are examples of ______? | decomposers |
flowers, plants, trees and bushes | examples of producers |
producers | Use energy from the sun through photosynthesis to make its own food. |
sun | source of all energy |
arrows | represent the flow of energy |
plants in water need three things | sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water |
carbon dioxide | The gas people breathe out and plants take in. |
oxygen | What people need to breathe in and plants release. |
food web | A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem. |