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.