Energy in the Ecosystem 5th

a building block of matter used by organisms to grow

• producer

• nutrient

• photosynthesis

• carrion

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an organism that must eat food to get new matter and energy for its body

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• digest

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rotting meat

• digest

• carrion

• decomposer

• consumer

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 to break food down into smaller pieces

• food chain

• consumer

• digest

• food web

 a model that shows the order in which organisms depend on each other for food

• food web

• digest

• food chain

• consumer

 a very specialized consumer that only eats dead and decaying organic matter

• producer

• food chain

• consumer

• decomposer

 an organism that makes its own food

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• carrion

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a scientist who studies ecosystems

• photosynthesis

• ecologist

• pediatrician

• carrion

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a model that connects all of the food chains in an ecosystem

• food chain

• digest

• food web

• ecosystem

the process through which plants create their food

• Ecologist

• photosynthesis

• carrion

• digest

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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