Flow of Energy - Key Terms

An organism that cannot make its own food and gets its energy from eating other organisms.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Detritivores/Decomposers

• Herbivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The process during which producers use chemical energy in matter rather than light energy to make food.

• Food web

• Trophic Levels

• Energy Pyramid

• Chemosynthesis

An organism that consumes the bodies of dead organisms and wastes produced by living organisms.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Detritivores/Decomposers

• Trophic Levels

A model of energy transfer that can show how the food chains in a community are interconnected.

• Food web

• Chemosynthesis

• Trophic Levels

• Energy Levels

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that uses an outside energy source, such as the sun, and produces its own food.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Detritivores/Decomposers

• Omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The steps/positions in an energy pyramid, at which the transfer of food (or energy) takes place from one organism to another organism.

• Ecosystem

• Trophic levels

• Food Chain

• Chemosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that eats both producers (plants) and other consumers (animals).

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Producer

A model that shows how energy Flows In an ecosystem through feeding relationships.

• Ecosystem

• Trophic levels

• Energy pyramid

• Food Chain

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that eats only producers (plants).

• Producer

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

All the living things and nonliving things in a given area.

• Ecosystem

• Trophic levels

• Energy pyramid

• Food Chain

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3