Energy

Ecosystem

Producers

Consumers

Decomposers

Food Chains

Food Webs

Trophic levels

Herbivore

Carnivore

Omnivore

Autotrophs

Heterotrophs

Photosynthesis

Cellular Respiration

10% Rule

an animal that feeds on flesh.

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.

n organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.

an organism that mostly feeds on plants.

each of several levels in an ecosystem, comprising organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy.

an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients

an organism that eats plants and animals

organisms that make their own food

an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals

the process by which organisms use oxygen to break down food molecules to get chemical energy for cell functions.

an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.

trophic

a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.