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Energy and matter transfer
ecosystem
- a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
Producers
- an organism that produces organic compounds from simple substances such as water and carbon dioxide
Consumers
- A living organism that eats producers and gets eaten by other consumers.
decomposers
- organism that breaks down dead organic material
food chains
- the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism
food webs
- consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.
herbivore
- an organism that feeds mostly on plants
carnivore
- an organism that eats mostly meat, or the flesh of animals
photosynthesis
- the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
heterotrophs
- an organism that consumes other organisms in a food chain.
celluiar respiration
- the process by which organisms combine oxygen with foodstuff molecules
