| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Food Webs | These show the flow of energy through an ecosystem |
| Food Webs (cont.) | Organisms can be classified based on how they obtain their energy (producers and consumers) |
| Produces | Organisms capable of capturing solar energy and converting into chemical energy (photosynthesis) |
| Photosynthesis | CO2+H20+energy->C6H12O6+02+H20 |
| C6H12O6 | Glucose is a smple sugar used by all living things as a source of carbon and energy |
| 3 Groups of Producers | Plants, Algae, and some bacteria (cyanobacteria) |
| Other terms for Producers | Phototrophic Organisms, Photosynthetic Organisms, Autotrophic |
| Consumers | Consumers are types of organisms that must consume chemical energy prepared by another organisms. |
| Cellular Respiration and Fermentation | Two ways that consumers break down glucose to release energy |
| Cellular Respiration | This is an aerobic process (C6h12O6+O2+H20->CO2+H20+Energy |
| Fermentation | This is an anaerobic process. Byproducts of this include fungus and muscle cells |
| Categories of Consumers | Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore, Decomposer |
| Decomposers | Consumers that break down detritus and recycle nutrients back into the environment. This can be aerobic or anaerobic. |
| Compare the fate of energy and the fate of matter in a food web | e |
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