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Ecology Terms
Term | Definition |
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Producer | Organisms that photosynthesise |
Consumer | Cannot make their own organic molecules |
Saprophytes | Decomposers that break down dead organic matter by extracellular digestion |
Food chain | Diagram to show what eats what (arrows show energy flow) |
Food web | Shows feeding relationships in an ecosystem |
Trophic level | Feeding level in food web |
Autotrophs | Make own food using external energy source (sun) |
Heterotrophs | Can't make own food (consumers) get it from surroundings |
Detrivore | Animal feeds off detritus (rotting organic matter) |
Humus | Rotting organic matter in soil |
poo | it somes out when you poo |