Chapter 5 Section 1 Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Photosynthesis | when a plant uses sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make sugar molecules |
| Producer | organism that makes its own food, also called an autotroph |
| Consumer | organisms that get their energy from eating other organisms, also called heterotrophs |
| Decomposer | consumers that get their energy by breaking down dead organisms |
| Cellular respiration | process of breaking down food to get energy, occurs in the cells of most organisms |
| Food chain | a sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organism |
| Food web | is multiple food chains linked together, shows many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem |
| Trophic level | each step through which energy is transferred in a food chain |
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