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Energy & Ecosystem
Energy in the Ecosystem Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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food web | all the food chains in a community |
herbivore | animals that eat plants |
chlorophyll | the green things in a plant that trap energy from the sun and changes its color |
carnivore | animals that eat other animals |
ecosystem | all living things in a habitat |
photosynthesis | the process by which plants change light to energy from the sun and uses it to make sugar |
habitat | a place where plants and animals live |
omnivore | consumer that eats both plants and animals |
scavenger | eats dead things (like your brothers) |
carbon dioxide | gas found in the air (emitted by plants) |
predators | an animal that kills for food |
food chain | the flow of energy through a community |
prey | the animal that a predator hurts |
decomposer | consumers put dead plants or animals in the soil or water |
consumer | something that gets energy plants or other animals |