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4 Unit 10 Organisms
4th Unit 10 Organisms & Their Environment
Term | Definition |
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nutrients | Materials used by living things for growth and for other life functions. |
producers | Living things that make their own food. (plants) |
consumers | Living things that eat other living things. |
energy | The ability to do work. |
photosynthesis | The process in which producers make their own food using the sun's energy, water and carbon dioxide. |
decomposers | Living things that get energy by breaking down wastes and dead pant and animal matter. |
food chain | The transfer of food energy in a sequence of living things. |
carnivore | A consumer that eats other animals. |
food web | The relationships among different food chains. |
herbivore | A consumer that eats only plants. |
omnivore | A consumer that eats both plants and animals. |
predator | An animal that hunts other animals. |
prey | An animal that is hunted and eaten. |