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Standard 2A: Food Webs
Food Webs
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10th Grade
06/19/2012

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Autotroph
Definition
Organisms that make their own food
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Heterotroph
Definition
Organisms that get food from other sources
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Detirivores
Definition
Organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down dead and decaying plants
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Herbivores
Definition
Organisms that feed only on plants
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Carnivores
Definition
Organisms that feed only on animals
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Omnivores
Definition
Eat both plants and animals
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Food web
Definition
Diagram that shows the more complex way that energy moves through an ecosystem
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Food chain
Definition
A diagram that shows one way the energy moves through an ecosystem
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Pyramid of Biomass
Definition
Pyramid that shows the amount of living tissue at each level in an ecosystem
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Pyramid of Numbers
Definition
Pyramid that shows the number of organisms at each level in an ecosystem
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Producers
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Make their own food
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Consumers
Definition
Feed on other organisms
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Scavengers
Definition
Fee off dead animals
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Type of organism that performs photosynthesis
Definition
Producer or Autotroph
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Why is energy flow not cyclic?
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Because energy in organisms is converted to heat
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