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Vocab Science
Vocabulary for Chapter 4 lessons 1-5
Term | Definition |
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Evergreen | a plant that keeps green leaves on its branches all year |
deciduous plant | a plant that loses all of its leaves for a part of the year |
photosynthesis | the process that plants use to make sugar for food |
producer | organism that makes its own food for energy |
consumer | organism that cannot make its own food |
decomposer | organism that gets its energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms |
pollution | any substance that damages the environment |
cellular respiration | the process by which cells break down sugar to release energy |
habitat | a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live |
population | a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
prey | any animal that is hunted by others for food |
predator | an animal that hunts and eats another animal |
community | the group of all populations in an area |
conservation | an attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes |