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Trophic Levels

An exploration of where organisms are situated food webs and chains they are part of

10 cards·by mbleier
ecologysciencebiologylivingenvironment
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An organism that makes the nutrients it needs using the energy from sunlight.
Autotroph
An organism that must eat all or part of other organisms to get the nutrients it needs.
Heterotroph
An organism that eats only autotrophs
Heterotroph
An organism that eats only heterotrophs.
Carnivore
An organism that eats both autotrophs and heterotrophs
Omnivore
The simple path of how food and energy pass through an ecosystem.
Food Chain
An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals into the chemicals that make them up
Decomposer
A network of interconnecting food chains
Food Web
Almost all energy used by living things on Earth comes from the...
Sun
If a human chooses to be a vegetarian or vegan, he or she still is classified as a(n)...
Omnivore