ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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prey
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consumer
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producer
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food source
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Detailed explanation-1: -Organisms are characterized into two broad categories based upon how they obtain their energy and nutrients: autotrophs and heterotrophs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Energy is transferred between organisms in food webs from producers to consumers. The energy is used by organisms to carry out complex tasks. The vast majority of energy that exists in food webs originates from the sun and is converted (transformed) into chemical energy by the process of photosynthesis in plants.
Detailed explanation-3: -Biodiversity refers to the variety of living organisms within a given area.
Detailed explanation-4: -A food chain describes how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem. At the basic level there are plants that produce the energy, then it moves up to higher-level organisms like herbivores. After that when carnivores eat the herbivores, energy is transferred from one to the other.