1. Food Webs and Biogeochemical Cycles
Unit 9 Vocabulary
Food Webs and Biogeochemical Cycles

2. The process by which cells break down sugar to release stored energy
Term
Example/ Drawing
Definition
The process by which cells break down sugar to release stored energy
Cellular Respiration
The process by which the cells of plants and some other organisms uses the sunlight to make their own food.
Photosynthesis

3. Term Example/ Drawing Definition
A network of food chains in an ecosystem
Food Webs
An organism that makes its own food from sunlight through the process of photosynthesis
Autotroph/ Producer
Heterotroph/ Consumer
An organism that gets its food by eating another consumer

4. Term Example/ Drawing Definition Trophic Level
The position that an organism occupies in a food web
Primary Consumer
Organisms that eats autotrophs/ producers
Secondary Consumer
Organism that eats primary consumers
Tertiary Consumer
Organism that eats secondary consumers

5. An organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms and the wastes of living things
Decomposer

6. The movement of carbon among living organisms, the air, and the ground
Term
Drawing/ Example
Definition
The graphical representation of the trophic levels by which the incoming solar energy is transferred in an ecosystem
Energy Pyramid
The movement of nitrogen among living organisms, the air, and the ground
Nitrogen Cycle
The movement of carbon among living organisms, the air, and the ground
Carbon Cycle