Energy Flow Vocabulary

4. Organisms such as millipedes and soil insects that scavenge the waste products or dead bodies of other community members and return nutrients from them to the soil.
6. Organisms that eat other animals that are dead
7. The energy or biomass that is left after the producers have metabolized enough for their own maintenance
8. Organisms that break down leaf litter and other nonliving matter into simpler constituents that can be taken up and used by plants. These include fungi, bacteria, and earthworms.
9. The position in a food chain in which an organism resides, based upon its primary source of nutrition

1. The process by which green plants and other organisms use sunlight to synthesize food from water and carbon dioxide
2. Organisms that cannot produce their own food. They must obtain their energy from consuming other organisms
3. Organisms that are able to capture the Sun's energy, water and carbon dioxide and convert it into food
5. The increasing concentration of a persistent, toxic chemical from the bottom to the top of a food chain