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Environmental sci
Term | Definition |
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Producers | an organism that produces it's own sugar from the sun (mainly plants |
Consumers | uses the chemical energy stored by photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Relies on other organisms for energy |
Autotrophs | producers |
Heterotrophs | consumers |
Herbivores | an organism that is a primary consumers and eats plants |
Primary consumers | gains energy straight from producers/herbivores |
Carnivores | most secondary and tertiary consumers. Kill and eat other animals |
Omnivores | eats both plants and animals |
Secondary consumers | Omnivores or carnivores. Eaten by tertiary consumers. Third layer of food chain |
Tertiary consumers | gain energy from other animals. Eat secondary consumers |
Decomposers | break down non living matter into simpler parts for it to be given back to community |
Detritivores | consume non living matter |
Trophic levels | rank in feeding hierarchy |
Biomass | total amount of living tissue a trophic level contains |
The ten percent rule | only ten percent of biomass is transferred between trophic levels theoretically |