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Energy Tran-Ecosystm
Energy Transfer in ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | a community of living organisms and their nonliving environment. |
| habitat | the place where an organism lives within an ecosystem.. |
| microhabitat | the smallest habitats such as the underside of a rock |
| niche | the role or job of an organism within an ecosystem. This includes all the resources they use and provide. |
| producer | organism that makes its own food using energy from the environment |
| decomposer | an organism that gets energy and nutrients by breaking down the remains of other organisms |
| consumer | an organism that eats other organisms. |
| herbivore | a consumer that eats plants. |
| carnivore | a consumer that eats other consumers |
| omnivore | a consumer that eats producers and consumers. |
| scavengers | consumer that feeds on dead or dying organisms |
| chemical energy | the energy stored in the bonds between atoms, it is released when the bonds are broken down |
| food chain | the path of energy transfer from producers to consumers. |
| primary consumer | the consumer that eats producers |
| secondary consumer | a consumer that eats a primary consumer |
| tertiary consumer | a consumer that eats a secondary consumer |
| food web | a diagram that shows the feeding relationships among many different organisms |
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