Biology

What do you call organisms that can make their own food?

What is another name to describe an autotroph?

Organisms that cannot make their own food and must get energy from eating other organisms are called...

What is another name to describe a heterotroph?

Click all examples of heterotrophs

• plants

• animals

• bacteria

• some types of fungi and protists

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How does this protist get its energy?

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

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An organism that obtains organic food molecules by eating other organisms or their byproducts and that cannot synthesize organic compounds from inorganic material.

• Autotrophs

• Heterotroph

• Omnitrophs

• Herbitrophs

An organism that produces its own nutrients from inorganic substances or from the environment instead of consuming other organisms.

• Autotrophs

• Heterotroph

• Omnitrophs

• Herbitrophs

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If plants breathe in carbon dioxide, what do they breathe out?

• Nitrogen

• Oxygen

• Carbon monoxide

• Helium

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What 3 things do plants need for the process of photosynthesis?

• Sunlight, oxygen and sugar.

• Water, soil and oxygen.

• Sunlight, carbon dioxide and water.

• Sunlight, soil and water.

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