Biology Section 11.3: Energy Flows Flashcards

2719661703	Habitat	an area in an ecosystem where an organism or species lives	0
2719661704	Niche	the specific role an organism or species plays within a habitat	1
2719661705	Producers	a group of organisms that produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis	2
2719662010	Consumers	a group of organisms that obtain their nutrients from other organisms	3
2719662011	Herbivores	a group of organisms that only eats plants	4
2719662331	Carnivores	a group of organisms that only eats animals	5
2719662332	Omnivores	a group of organisms that eat both plants and animals	6
2719662333	Scavengers	a group of organisms that feeds on dead organisms	7
2719662698	Decomposers	a group of organisms that breaks down dead plant and animal matter and releases the nutrients into the soil	8
2719662699	Saprobes	a group of organisms, also called decomposers, that break down dead plant and animal matter and release the nutrients into the soil	9
2719662700	Food chain	the sequence of organisms feeding upon each other in an ecosystem	10
2719663920	Primary consumer	an organism in a food chain that feed on producers	11
2719663921	Secondary consumer	the organism in a food chain that feeds on primary consumers	12
2719664464	Tertiary consumer	the organism in a food chain that feeds on secondary consumers	13
2719664465	Quaternary consumer	the organism in a food chain that feeds on tertiary consumers	14
2719664823	Top consumer	the last consumer in a food chain; is not directly preyed upon	15
2719664824	Trophic level	a distinct level of feeding within an ecosystem	16
2719665541	Food web	a group of two or more food chains that are intertwined	17
2719665542	Ecological Pyramid	an illustration of the energy, biomass, or numbers at each trophic level	18
2719665949	Pyramid of energy	an illustration of the amount of energy in the bodies of organisms at each trophic level	19
2719665950	Pyramid of numbers	an illustration of the number of organisms feeding at each trophic level	20
2719666368	Pyramid of biomass	an illustration of the total mass of dry, organic matter at each trophic level in a given unit of area	21
2719667164	Biomass	the mass of dry, organic matter in a given habitat	22