Energy Transfer in Living Things

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Energy Transfer in Living Things

• Klein ISD

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How do plants and animals get the energy they
need?

• Vocabulary List
• Consumer
• Producer
• Food Chain
• Carnivore
• Food
• Herbivore
• Decomposer
• Food Web

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Vocabulary Boards
Definition
Concept
Example or Sentence
Picture
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Consumer Definition An organism that consumes another organism as food as a mean of energy.
Picture Sentence Animals are consumers. They eat plant and other animals to get energy.
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Producer Definition Any autotrophic Organism capable of creating organic materials from inorganic materials which therefore makes them an essential part in any ecosystem by being the means in which energy is introduced into the food chain of it.
Picture Sentence Green plants make, or produce, their own food. Plants are producers.
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Food Chain Definition A diagrammatic version of the flow of energy from one organism to another in a community. Arrows show the direction of the energy Flow. The series of step by which energy is obtained, used and transformed by living things.
Picture Sentence Food chains, also called food webs, food networks and/or tropic networks, describe the feeding relationships between species to another within an ecosystem.
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Carnivore Definition An organism that eats animals. Terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb. .
Picture Sentence In a more general sense, animals are loosely considered carnivores if their feeding behavior consists of preying on other animals rather than grazing on plants.
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Food Definition Food is what is required by humans to grow and survive, and provide a 'fuel' for the energy needed in our biological reactions.
Picture Sentence Food is any substance, usually composed primarily of carbohydrates, fats, water and/or proteins, that can be eaten or drunk by an animal for nutrition or pleasure.
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Herbivore Definition An animal that consumes herbaceous vegetation.
Picture Sentence Herbivore is a form of predation in which an organism, known as a herbivore.
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Decomposer Definition An organism that eats dead or decaying organisms.
Picture Sentence Decomposers are organisms that consume dead organisms .
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Food Web Definition Interconnecting food chains in an ecological community.
Picture Sentence A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food.