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Energy flow and Balance in Ecosystem (Melanda S.)

Chapter 18 Vocabulary

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Energy from the sunplants need energy from the sum to live and also nutrients from ari,water,and soil
Using energyGreen plants such as trees and grasses and some kinds of small living things such as algae,use energy
Producera living thing containing chlorophyll and capable of using sunlight to make it's own food from materials taken from the soil and air.
Recieving energyAnimals and plants recieve their food in plants or by eating other organisms.
ConsumersA living thing that eats other living things
herbivoresAn animal that eats only plants or plan material.
CarnivoreAn animal that eats only eats other animals.
OmnivoreAn animal that eats both plants and other animals.
DecomposerA living thing that feeds on dead material breaking them down and returning the material to the environment
Food chainThe arrangement of living things in an order in which each uses the next as a source of food.
Food pyramidA diagram to show how the amount of food energy availiable changes at each step of the food chain.
Amount of foodthe difference in the size of population of food.


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