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| The rate at which organic material is produced by photosynthetic organisms in an ecosystem |
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| Organisms that first capture energy |
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| Organisms that consume plants or other organisms to obtain energy necessary to build their molecules |
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| Assigning organisms in that ecosystem to a specific level |
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| The path of energy through the trophic levels of an ecosystem |
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| Animals that eat plants or other primary producers |
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| Animals that eat other animals |
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| When something is both a herbivore and a carnivore |
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| Organisms that obtain their energy from organic waste and dead bodies |
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| Something that causes decay such as bacteria and fungi |
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| Interconnected group of food chains |
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| A diagram in which each trophic level is represented by a block, and the blocks are stacked on top of each other, with the lowest trophic level on the bottom |
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| The dry weight of tissue and other organic matters found in a specific ecosystem |
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