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| 3846560437 | Autotrophs | Organisms that can produce their own organic compounds from inorganic chemicals |  | 0 |
| 3846560438 | Heterotrophs | Organisms that obtain food energy by consuming other organisms or products created by other organisms |  | 1 |
| 3846560439 | Producers | Organisms that are capable of converting radiant energy, or chemical energy, into carbohydrates. | 2 | |
| 3846560440 | Examples of producers include... | Plants and algae | 3 | |
| 3846560441 | Plants and algae carry out... | Photosynthesis |  | 4 |
| 3846560442 | What is the unbalanced chemical reaction of photosynthesis? | H2O+CO2+Solar Energy -> CH2O+O2 | 5 | |
| 3846560443 | Anaerobic | Without oxygen | 6 | |
| 3846560444 | Some producers make food through anaerobic environments. Instead of photosynthesis, they use the process of... | Chemosynthesis | 7 | |
| 3846560445 | Chemotrophs | Few specialized bacteria fit this niche. They use chemosynthesis. | 8 | |
| 3846560446 | Where are many chemotrophs found? | Hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean |  | 9 |
| 3846560447 | What is the unbalanced chemical equation of chemosynthesis? | O2+H2S+O2+Energy -> CH2O+S+H2O |  | 10 |
| 3846560448 | Net Primary Productivity (NPP) | The amount of energy that plants pass on to the community of herbivores in an ecosystem | 11 | |
| 3846560449 | How is NPP calculated? | By using the Gross Primary Productivity and subtracting from it the amount of energy the plants need for growth, maintenance, repair, and reproduction. |  | 12 |
| 3846560450 | Gross Primary Productivity | The amount of sugar that the plants produce in photosynthesis |  | 13 |
| 3846560451 | Consumers | Organisms that must obtain food energy from secondary sources. |  | 14 |
| 3846560452 | Primary consumers | Herbivores |  | 15 |
| 3846560453 | Herbivores | Consume producers |  | 16 |
| 3846560454 | Secondary consumers | Consumes primary consumers/herbivores |  | 17 |
| 3846560455 | Tertiary consumers | Consumes secondary consumers |  | 18 |
| 3846560456 | Detritivores | Derive energy from consuming nonliving organic matter such as dead animals or fallen leaves |  | 19 |
| 3846560457 | Decomposers | Bacteria or fungi that absorb nutrients from nonliving organic matter and wastes of living organisms and corpses. |  | 20 |
| 3846560458 | What do decomposers convert nonliving organic matter, living organisms, and corpses into? | Inorganic forms | 21 | |
| 3846560459 | Each feeding level in a food chain is called a.... | Trophic level |  | 22 |
| 3846560460 | As you increase in tropic levels, energy... | decreases | 23 | |
| 3846560461 | Only __% of the energy from one tropic level is passed to the next. | 10 | 24 | |
| 3846560462 | What trophic level has the most usable energy? | Producers | 25 | |
| 3846560463 | Biomagnification | The increasing concentration of toxin molecules at successively higher trophic levels in a food chain |  | 26 |
| 3846560464 | What pesticide biomagnifies and was also written about by Rachel Carson? | DDT |  | 27 |
| 3846560465 | Bioaccumulation | The accumulation of a substance in the tissues of a living organism |  | 28 |
| 3846560466 | Food web | A more realistic type of food chain |  | 29 |
