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Quiz Review FOUR
Flow of Energy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Producer | an organism that can make food from sunlight |
| Consumer | an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms |
| Decomposer | an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms for producers to use |
| Food Web | overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem |
| Trophic Level | each step or position in a food chain or web |
| Herbivore | consumer that eats only plants |
| Carnivore | consumer that eats only animals |
| Omnivore | consumer that eats both plants and animals |
| Decreases | this happens as we move up trophic levels |
| Atoms | these make up the organisms in an ecosystem are cycled repeatedly between living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem |