6.L.2.1 Ecosystems-Energy Flow

The study of interactions between organisms and their environment.

• biology

• ecology

• zoology

• sociology

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Any living thing.

• organism

• limiting factor

• chemical energy

• life force

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Organisms that use energy in sunlight to make their own food.

• consumers

• omnivores

• herbivores

• producers

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Organisms that cannot make their own food.

• producers

• consumers

Consumers that eat and break down dead plants and animals.

• herbivores

• omnivores

• scavengers

• decomposers

These organisms are the final link in the energy cycle.

• producers

• consumers

• decomposers

• scavengers

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A diagram that shows how energy flows from one organism to another.

• energy pyramid

• food web

• food chain

• ecosystem

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A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.

• food chain

• food web

• energy pyramid

• ecosystem

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These substances cycle between the living and nonliving environment:

• water

• nitrogen

• carbon

• oxygen

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Energy flows through ecosystems in _____ direction.

• all

• one

• none

• two

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