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Food Chains & Food Webs (Consumers (Get energy from the Sun indirectly…
Food Chains & Food Webs
Sun
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Other than plants, all other organisms get energy from the Sun indirectly
Producers
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Autotrophs - group of organisms that produce complex organic compounds (e.g. sugar) using light energy from the Sun (photosynthesis)
Consumers
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Primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, quarternary consumers, apex predators
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plant-eaters - herbivores, meat-eaters - carnivores, plant-and-meat eaters - omnivores
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Energy pyramid
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10% rule - 10% or 1/10 of the energy harvested at a lower trophic level is transferred up to the next higher trophic level