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Ecosystems
Energy Transfers
4
Science
5th Grade
01/24/2008

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consumers

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an organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs.

 

Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish.

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producers

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use sunlight to make the food they need from carbon dioxide and water.

 

Plants

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food chain

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How energy is passed through communities.  It shows how the "consumers" are connected to one another by what they eat.

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decomposer

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A "consumer" that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms, using some as food, while the others become part of the soil.

 

Mushrooms, bacteria.

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