Cycle of Matter & Energy Transfer in Ecosystems Flashcard

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What is the role of decomposers in an ecosystem?

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They recycle nutrients from dead matter back to the environment.

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Which of the following is a producer?

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Maple tree

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What does a secondary consumer eat?

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Eats primary consumers.

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How does the eagle directly obtain its energy?

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From the snake or frog.

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What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?

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Matter is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed.

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What is a producer in an ecosystem?

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An organism that can make its own food, typically through photosynthesis.

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What is a primary consumer?

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An organism that eats producers, usually herbivores.

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What is a food chain?

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A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

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What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

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What is photosynthesis?

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The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.