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Unit three
Bio unit three vocab
Question | Answer |
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Producer | Makes its own food |
Consumer | an organism that feeds on another plant or animal. Example: herbivore or carnivore |
Decomposer | an organism that can break down a dead plant or animal. Example: bacteria or fungus |
Trophic Level | The levels of the different consumers. |
Food Chain | A chain of the food (plant or meat) that an ultimate consumer might eat. If it eats animals, the stuff those animals eat will also appear. |
Herbivore | Eats plants |
Carnivore | Eats meat |
Omnivore | Eats both plants and meat |
Primary Consumer | An herbivore |
Secondary Consumer | Carnivore |
Tertiary Consumer | A carnivore that's at the top of a biomass or energy pyramid. |
Food web | A collage of food chains |
Autotroph | makes its own food/energy |
Heterotroph | Relies on other resources to make food/energy |
Photosynthesis | The process/equation of how plants make their own food/energy |
cellular respiration | How animals get food/energy. |
ATP | how organisms store energy |
ADP | how organisms release energy |