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| An organism that collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce food |
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| An organism that gets its energy by consuming other organisms |
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| An organism that eats only plants. |
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| An organism that eats only meat - they prey on other heterotrophs |
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| An organism that eats both plants and animals. |
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| An organism that eats fragments of dead matter in an ecosystem |
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| Organisms that break down dead organisms by rleasing digestive enzymes |
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| Fungi like mushrooms, and bacteria |
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| A feeding level in a food chain or food web |
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| A simple model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem. It shows feeding relationships. |
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| A model that is composed of many interconnected food chains. |
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| A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy, biomass of numbers of organisms at each trophic level in an ecosystem. |
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| How much energy move from one trophic level to the next? |
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| Why are there so few top carnivores in an ecosystem? |
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| Because only 10% of the energy from the lower trophic level is transferred up to them |
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