BIO ECOLOGY 1

Producer/ Autotroph:

• make their own food

• make their own oxygen

• make their own water

make their own food through use of sunlight (photosynthesis)

• phototroph

• chemotroph

• autotroph

examples of phototroph

• sunlight

• cyanobacteria

• algae

• sulfur

make their own food through use of chemicals (methane, sulfur)

• chemotroph

• phototroph

• autotroph

examples of chemotroph

• some bactera

• plants

• algae

• cyanobacteria

troph:

• nourish

• self

• other

• light

auto:

• self

• other

• light

• nourish

hetero:

• other

• light

• self

• nourish

chemo:

• chemical

• plant

• everything

• meat

herb:

• plant

• everything

• meat

• chemical