Flow of Energy

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What is a Decomposer?

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A heterotroph that gets energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycles nutrients back to the ecosystem.

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What are Abiotic Factors?

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Parts of an ecosystem that are not living, such as water, soil, sunlight, temperature, and altitude.

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What is the Flow of Energy in an ecosystem?

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All energy in an ecosystem comes from the sun and is passed through the ecosystem as organisms eat other organisms.

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What is a Herbivore?

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An animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating plants.

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What are Trophic Levels?

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The levels in an ecological pyramid that include all the organisms that share the same place in a food chain.

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What is a Producer?

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An organism that can make its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, forming the base of the food chain.

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What is a Carnivore?

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An animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating other animals.

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What is an Omnivore?

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An animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating both plants and animals.

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What is a Food Chain?

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A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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What is a Food Web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.