Ecosystem 1
What is a Food chain?
It is the path of energy as it flows from one living thing to the next.
Energy Pyramid
Shows the amount of energy left for consumers as the energy moves through a food web.
An organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun
Producer
animals that hunt other animals for food
Predator
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What is a Food Web?
Several food chains connected together.
Primary Consumer
The first level in a food chain . The consumer who eats the producer
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
Consumer
Animals that are hunted.
Prey
Nitrogen Cycle
this describes how nitrogen moves between plants, animals, bacteria, the air, and soil in the ground.
Community
A group of living things that interact in an ecosystem
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800
An organism that breaks down dead organisms
Decomposers
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800
Carbon Cycle
The path that carbon travels through an ecosystem to sustain life on Earth.
Population
A group of one or more species living in a certain habitat.
The place in which a plant or animal lives.
Habitat
Biotic
The living parts of an ecosystem.
Abiotic
The non-living parts of an ecosystem.
Niche
The part that a plant or animal plays in an ecosystem.