Set 2 of Ecology and the carbon cycle

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What is biomass?

How much new living material is made.

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What is productivity?

How much new living material is made.

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What is photosynthesis?

How plants use sunlight to make food.

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What is the carbon cycle?

The way carbon moves through the air, plants, animals, and soil.

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What are producers?

Living things, like plants, that make their own food.

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What are consumers?

Living things that get food by eating other things.

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What are decomposers?

Living things that break down dead plants and animals.

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What is a trophic pyramid?

A diagram showing feeding levels in an ecosystem.

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What is an autotroph?

A living thing that makes its own food.

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What is a heterotroph?

A living thing that gets food by eating other things.