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2. eats both plants and animals; examples include bears and humans
4. the process where consumers breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide; it uses oxygen and glucose to make carbon dioxide, water, and energy
5. do not make their own food but get energy from eating other plants and animals; also called heterotrophs
6. only eats plants, examples include rabbits and grasshoppers
9. something that takes excess carbon out of the air. Examples include plants, trees, oceans
10. trophic level producers; have most energy
13. interconnected food chains that show flow of energy in an ecosystem
14. break down dead organisms and waste; often called nature’s recyclers; examples include fungi and bacteria
15. consumer this is the second consumer that eats the first consumer
16. trpoghic lebel with secondary consumers and beyond

1. when plants use energy from the sun, carbon dioxide, and water to make glucose (sugar) and oxygen (to be released into the air).
3. trophic level with primary consumers
7. this is the first consumer in the food chain that eats the producer
8. only eats animals; examples include lion and wolf
11. organisms that make their own food; also called AUTOtrophs (synonym); examples include plants, algae, microorganisms
12. shows the relationship between different organisms and the flow of energy in different trophic levels in an ecosystem
13. the sequence of living organisms in which one organism consumes another organism to transfer food energy