3. Click on the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM Buffalo
Eat and be eaten
4. Autotroph / primary producer
Makes own food (glucose) from primary energy
source (sun or deep-sea thermal vents)
Photosynthesis Chemosynthesis
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PPP: A plant = producer = photosynthesis
5. Heterotroph/ consumer
Hetero (others) troph (nutrition)
• Cannot make their own food
• Must eat other living organisms
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9. Top/ Apex predator
The top-end of the food chain
Is not eaten by anything else
(is not prey) because it has
little/no natural enemies*
Humans often not
considered
natural enemies
10. Detritivores
• Eat detritus: plant and animal remains, shed parts
(skin, antlers, leaves), and wastes
• Scavengers- detritivores that specialized in carrion
(dead animal bodies) or other animal wastes
11. Decomposers (aka saprotrophs)
• gets its energy from non-living organic matter.
• Help speed up the decaying process.
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Fungi eat the dead matter by Cool fact: A gram of soil typically contains
releasing acid to melt the 40 million bacterial cells, and the bacteria
decaying material, then sucking on Earth form a biomass that exceeds
in all the acid, along with the that of all living plants and animals.
melted material