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| ecology | study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and their physical environment |
| producers | organisms that produce their own food |
| consumers | organisms that obtain energy by consuming plants and/or other organisms |
| herbivores | plant eaters |
| carnivores | meat eaters |
| omnivores | animals that are both carnivores and herbivores |
| detritivores | obtain their energy from organic wastes and dead bodies |
| food chain | path of energy through the trophic levels of an ecosystem |
| food web | a complex network of interactions showing energy flow in an ecosystem |
| the amount of energy transferred from one trophic level to another | 10% |
| what happens to energy not transferred to another trophic level | it is released into the atmophere as heat energy |
| levels in an energy pyramid | trophic levels |
