A | B |
Pyramids | Layered diagram showing feeding relationships in a food chain |
Biomass | The type of pyramid which always looks pyramid shaped |
Sunlight | The source of energy in almost all food chains |
Organic | Energy containing compounds with carbon and hydrogen in them |
Efficient | What a food chain must be if it has lots of levels |
Consumer | An organism which eats other organisms |
Producer | Organism at the start of a food chain |
Photosynthesise | What producers do |
Trophic level | 'Feeding level' |
Vegetarian | Someone who eats no meat |
Resistant | What bacteria are becoming because armers feed cattle with unnecessary antibiotics |
Decomposers | Bacteria and fungi which break down dead things |
Bacteria | The majority of decomposers which aren't fungi |
Fungi | The majority of decomposers which aren't bacteria |
Carbon dioxide | Released into the air by respiration |
Respiration | Releases carbon dioxide from organic molecules |
Fossil fuel | What some organic material becomes if it doesn't fully decompose |
Burning | How you turn fossil fuels into carbon dioxide and water |
Natural gas | The fossil fuel which isn't coal or oil |
Photosynthesis | The process which takes carbon dioxide from the air and turns it into sugars |
Plants | Organisms which take carbon dioxide from the air |