| Term | Definition |
|---|
| producer | An organism that makes its own food |
| Autotroph | Scientific term for an organism that makes its own food |
| consumer | An organism that must eat to get energy |
| heterotroph | Scientific term for an organism that must eat to get energy |
| herbivore | primary consumer; eats producers |
| carnivore | secondary consumer; eats primary consumers |
| decomposer | organisms that break down dead matter and returns nutrients to soil. |
| biomagnification | The concentration of toxins as matter goes up the food chain |
| transpiration | Evaporation of water from plants |
| carbon sink | Part of an ecosystem that absorbs more carbon than it releases |
| global warming | Increasing of Earth's surface temperature |
| nitrogen fixing bacteria | Bacteria that change atmospheric nitrogen into useable nitrogen |
| eutrophication | Killing of an aquatic ecosystem from too much nitrogen |
| legumes | Plants that have NFB's living in their roots |
| cellular respiration | Process performed by animals that returns carbon to the atmosphere |
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