Energy Flow
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| Food web | Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem.
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| Grazing food web | Starts with radiant energy captured by producers(plants) through photosynthesis, and continues with energy flow from producers to consumers and finally to decomposers.
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| Ecosystem | A system comparing all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them.
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| Energy Pyramid | A diagram that show the trophic levels of organisms in a food web.
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| Trophic level | The position an organism occupies on the food web.
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| Decomposers | Organisms such as bacteria and fungi that break down the remains of dead plants and animals without the need for internal digestion.
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| Food chain | A single, linear path showing the flow of energy from the sun to producer and through different levels of consumers.
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| Tertiary consumers | Animals that eat secondary consumers.
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| Secondary consumers | Animals that eat other animals that eat plants.
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| Primary consumers | An organism that gets their energy by feeding on producers in the food chain.
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| Carnivores | Animals that eat other animals.
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| Herbivores | Organisms that consume only plants.
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| Consumers | An organism that must consume other organisms for nutrients.
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| Producers | Organisms that make complex, energy-containing biomolecules from simple inorganic molecules using energy captured from light or inorganic chemical compounds.
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