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Flow of energy in ecosystem
Term | Definition |
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Photosynthesis | The process by which plants use the sun's energy to make foood |
Chemosynthesis | The process by which bacteria turn chemical energy into food. |
Producers | Organisms in an ecosystem that cannot make their own food.Also called autotrophs. |
Consumers | organisms in an ecosystem that cannot make their own food and must obtain food from other sources.Also called heterotrophs. |
Herbiovores | Obtain energy by eating plants |
Carnivores | Obtain energy by eating other consumers |
Omnivores | obtain energy by eating both producers and other consumers. |
Decomposers | Obtain energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or wastes of living organisms |