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22.2 Energy Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Secondary consumer | Predator, eats other consumers NOT plants, third row of pyramid |
| Prey | Organisms that get eaten |
| Primary Consumer | Herbivores, eat producers, always second row of pyramid |
| Producer | Always bottom of pyramid, autotrophic |
| Scavenger | Carnivore who does not hunt and make kills, adapted for rotting flesh |
| Omnivore | Eats producers and other consumers |
| Arrow | Means "energy flows to" |
| Food Web | Shows relationships, more stable with more members |
| 10 | Percent of energy that goes to the next level |
| 90 | Percent of energy that is lost to life activities |
| Biomass | Amount in an ecosystem, always more producers |
| Heterotropic | General term meaning "gets food from a different source" because they can't make their own. |